Find text in file using dos

In previous example we have searched single for for given string. Find command also supports for searching multiple file with a single command. We do not specify an option. Previous example show how to search all files without filtering them according to their extension. We can give specific extension to search. In this example we will search in text files where they extension is. While searching terms there may be more than one occurence of the given string.

Anonymous said on May 4, at pm. BM said on May 5, at am. You mean FileLocator Lite? Been using that for years.

Still findstr might have its uses. Jessica said on May 4, at pm. PowerShell equivalent is Select-String. Martin Brinkmann said on May 5, at am.

Maarten said on May 5, at am. Robert G. I use grepWin 1. STech said on May 7, at pm. TelV said on May 8, at am. TelV said on May 8, at pm. Actually, come to think of it, the remove command should be: DISM. Anonymous said on May 8, at pm. Marcos said on September 13, at am. Chris said on October 22, at pm. RealDarkMan said on June 1, at am. Alexd said on October 24, at pm. Janet Nesmith said on April 26, at pm. I want to look for word XX in all files with names containing YY.

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Please stay on-topic. Please note that your comment may not appear immediately after you post it. Find is an external command that is available for the following Microsoft operating systems as find. If a pathname is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt or piped from another command.

The next example searches for any text file. As seen in the output below, the only file containing "hope" is the CH. TXT file.