findstr Questions
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How can I properly escape a quote in a search string when using findstr.exe?
Example:
findstr /misc:"namespace=\"" *.cs > ns.txt
This outputs to the console, instead of to the file I specifi...
Herzog asked 13/2, 2011 at 6:29
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How to delete the first line of a file using Batch?
I really need help... I've tried everything but it didn't work. :(
I've tried this :
@echo off
Type test.txt | findstr /I /V /C:"So, lets remov...
Egocentric asked 19/10, 2013 at 10:45
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I have this string in a text file (test.txt):
BLA BLA BLA
BLA BLA
Found 11 errors and 7 warnings
I perform this command:
findstr /r "[0-9]+ errors" test.txt
In order to get just 11 errors str...
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Windows command line, I want to search a file for all rows starting with:
# NNN "<file>.inc"
where NNN is a number and <file> any string.
I want to use findstr, because I cannot req...
Smitten asked 29/4, 2010 at 12:7
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I want to specify whitespace after a certain word (SetupAX) that I am searching in a file.
I am trying the findstr command this way -
findstr /n /r "SetupAX[ \r\n\t]" XYZ.frm
However, this do...
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The Windows FINDSTR command is horribly documented. There is very basic command line help available through FINDSTR /?, or HELP FINDSTR, but it is woefully inadequate. There is a wee bit more docum...
Isotropic asked 13/1, 2012 at 1:39
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While trying to provide a comprehensive answer to the question Why is FindStr returning not-found, I encountered strange behaviour of code that involves a pipe. This is some code based on the ori...
Lipoma asked 13/8, 2019 at 23:13
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The following findstr.exe command almost does what I want, but not quite:
findstr /s /i /c:"word1 word2 word3" *.abc
I have used:
/s for searching all subfolders.
/c:
Uses specified text ...
Littleton asked 17/4, 2017 at 11:49
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I'm doing a little string validation with findstr and its /r flag to allow for regular expressions. In particular I'd like to validate integers.
The regex
^[0-9][0-9]*$
worked fine for non-nega...
Kandacekandahar asked 10/4, 2010 at 15:10
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I’m trying to solve a production problem. We receive an error file daily (Mon-Fri) from the bank that contains error records. These records are 94 bytes in length. On occasion there will be some er...
Ketosis asked 15/10, 2018 at 23:14
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I'm trying to extract a substring with a Windows command.
I want to extract a number that looks like this: 1.2.3.4 or more exact [anyPosInteger.anyPosInteger.anyPosInteger.anyPosInteger].
I thou...
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This is very simple... why first command working and second no?
Findstr looks to me for best use in "dos"like commands and not in powershell.
Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | findstr ^Display...
Lysenko asked 5/8, 2016 at 15:18
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I'm trying to use findstr to search inside a folder looking for some string:
findstr /spin /c:"string" *
however it returns back with a lot of Cannot open errors which make it difficult for me t...
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sorry in advance if theres a thread on here to answer my question, I've been stuck on this since friday and was searching around. I did find some similar-ish problems but none I could apply or adap...
Applicative asked 31/10, 2017 at 12:47
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Sometimes FINDSTR with multiple literal search strings fails to find all matches. For example, the following FINDSTR example fails to find a match.
echo ffffaaa|findstr /l "ffffaaa faffaffddd&...
Pasteur asked 19/1, 2012 at 5:1
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I want to search all files in a certain directory for occurrences of statements such as
Load frmXYZ
I am on Windows 7, using the findstr command. I tried:
findstr /n Load.*frm *.*
But this...
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I would like findstr /m background *.vim | gvim to open all *.vim files containing background in a single instance of gvim - but I can't get the piping to work.
This is very similar to this quest...
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I want to do this:
findstr /s /c:some-symbol *
or the grep equivalent
grep -R some-symbol *
but I need the utility to autodetect files encoded in UTF-16 (and friends) and search them appro...
Obligate asked 2/1, 2009 at 21:28
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How to search for the exact match of string(s) using the windows findstr command?
For example: I need to find only the exact match the string store but not
stored, storeday, etc.
The below comman...
Forme asked 9/8, 2016 at 17:55
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Old.txt contains
apple
orange
banana
And New.txt contains
apple
orange
banana
grape
lemon
I can access new contents which are added to New.txt using grep command.
grep -Fxvf Old.txt New.txt ...
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I'm new to Windows batch programming and to Stack Overflow, so please forgive me if I ask anything that's blatantly obvious to you seasoned, talented folks. I'm using Windows batch (.bat) to find f...
Cynosure asked 19/11, 2013 at 16:1
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I will like to call the command find from within a execute_process.
The format of the find command is:
find [/v] [/c] [/n] [/i] [/off[line]] "<String>" [[<Drive>:][<Path>]<Fi...
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While writing some recent scripts in cmd.exe, I had a need to use findstr with regular expressions - customer required standard cmd.exe commands (no GnuWin32 nor Cygwin nor VBS nor Powershell).
I ...
Operant asked 14/4, 2010 at 7:56
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To the command findstr str1 *.* I want to add something that will exclude the results which contain the string str2.
In Linux the way of doing it is to add | grep -v str2 (to grep str1 * of cours...
Leatherworker asked 7/5, 2014 at 7:15
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Findstr is supposed to support regular expressions and the way I am using it I need to have an OR to check if a file ends in .exe OR .dll. However I cannot get the OR operation to work. Windows thi...
Lukas asked 17/3, 2015 at 15:57
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