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...
Unrig asked 24/11, 2016 at 7:57

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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...
Newhall asked 21/3, 2012 at 18:45

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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...
Raynaraynah asked 23/2, 2018 at 9:34

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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...
Glycolysis asked 30/1, 2018 at 23:32

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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...
Pentavalent asked 20/3, 2012 at 15:18

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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...
Breadth asked 24/12, 2009 at 15:32

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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 ...
Historiographer asked 1/8, 2016 at 13:44

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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...
Andorra asked 20/1, 2016 at 16:21

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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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