Return) This makes it of limited use in searching binary or XML file types.Īn empty string "" will normally match nothing, with the /v flag reversing the test, to match everything, but this will fail for any lines longer than 4091 characters long. That is positioned more than 1070 characters along a single line (with no carriage Limitationsįind does not support wildcards, use FINDSTR instead.Īlthough FIND can be used to scan large files, it will not detect any string
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ErrorlevelįIND will return an ErrorLevel as follows:Ġ String found in at least one of the files.Ģ If any files in the list do not exist or if no files match a wildcard mask. The FIND command will output a string of 10 dashes - followed by the filename being searched, followed by any matching lines of text in the file. This is in addition to enclosing the entire string in quotation marks: "The ""main"" event" If searching for text that contains double quote characters ", they must be escaped by doubling to "" Or will accept text piped from another command. If a is not specified, FIND will prompt for text input
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] Do not skip files that have the offline attribute set. I Ignore the case of characters when searching for the string. C Count the number of lines containing the string.
V Display all lines NOT containing the specified string. A drive/file(s) to search ( wildcards accepted).
" string" The text string to find (must be in quotes). Search for a text string in a file & display all the linesįIND " string"
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