I need some help please!
How can i do a search in multiple files for various text using the command line?
Hope this makes sense!
Re: Search in windows via command line
You mean something like “find” ?
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yup. i tried this but it didnt work!!
This is a shared drive btw!
Re: Search in windows via command line
You can get ultra edit and do a find in files. I think you can use it on trial for 30 days.
Re: Search in windows via command line
What exactly are u trying to do?
You can use "findstr" if you are looking to scan the insides of files.
There are other 3rd party utilities i can suggest, but need to need to know what the purpose is.
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i need to scan files for words inside a folder.
thats basically it
but i dont know the exact command! findstr didnt work for me for some reason
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^ unless I'm missing something, "find" would do the job in that case.
find /I "blah" path:\folder*.*
I've tried and it seems to work fine even with mapped drives.
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the " ." donates the kind of file im presuming?
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^ I'm asking it to search all files in that directory.
Re: Search in windows via command line
"find.exe" would do the trick, but "findstr.exe" gives you a lot more options.
"findstr /M /C:STONECOLE ." = would give you just the file names of the files that contain that string.
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i would prob prefer to use findstr as there are more than a few words i want to search for in multiple files. I have already tried this...but its giving too many different file formats..eg pictures...i only want to perform the search in word docs!!!
Re: Search in windows via command line
find never worked correctly for me, so I have another solution, use
GREP
its basically Unix utility, works perfectly fine on command line.
The paid utility is called WinGrep
Re: Search in windows via command line
STONECOLD, to search for a specific file type instead of using . use for instance *.doc or *.txt.
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Thanks mate, i will def try it out!