I have a program that is using findstr, and when the string is found the errorlevel returns 0 and when the string is not found the errorlevel returns 1. Alright, that's fine I can deal with that. ...

I want to search one string e.g. "main" in my project on windows OS recursively. I searched that and find a solution Windows recursive grep command-line I applied same with two different approach,...

How do I write a regex to match any string that doesn't meet a particular pattern? I'm faced with a situation where I have to match an (A and ~B) pattern.

I found magoo's post and been playing around with it. I can't seem to get the DIR part to parse out the file name to create the folder and move the files to the respective folders. The following ar...

I tried to find the solutions in many places but couldn't find specific answer. I am creating a batch script. The following is my code so far @echo off SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion cls for...

I have a large directory of folders (call it C:\Main). I need to set up a batch script to search the subfolders of that directory for a string within the filename (not the text within the file). I'...

I have a batch file with a portion shown below: rem @echo off cd C:\Program Files\CA\AllFusion Gen\GEN\test8.ief\c\ FINDSTR /C:"'V1600 OPER'" /C:"'V1714 OPER'" /C:"'V1801 OPER'" /C:"'V1901 OPER...

This is a question for the batch pro's i guess. Seems a lot of people do stumble over IP veriffication while batching, while just using windows built in functinallity, but no real code is to find. ...

does anyone know why this would not work (Windows 7, batch script)? C:\testing>FINDSTR /R /N "^.*$" test.txt | FIND /C ":" FIND: `/C': No such file or directory FIND: `:': No such file or dire...

findstr /S "stored procedure" *.* returns all the files with the string "stored" as opposed to "stored procedure". Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks

Someone great in this site give me this code at batch change folder name by read line from text file @echo off pushd "your root location" for /f "tokens=1* delims=:" %%A in ( 'findstr /srbc:"SMT...

I'm trying to write a simple batch that will loop through every line in a file and if the line contains "apples" or "tomato" then to output that line. I have this code to find one string and outpu...

I must check the validity of a string stored in a variable, I can not use external CLI utilities (grep, awk, etc.) so I chose FINDSTR. The string has this format (in regexp): ([1-9][0-9]*:".*"(|"....

I'd like to search through multiple text files in a single directory for a string ('monkey'), if the string exists, then either, depending on what's easiest: rename the matching string - e.g. cha...

I had to switch off my windows search indexing in Windows 7 as the old hard disk was constantly making noise with indexing switched on! Now I want to use Windows command prompt to search for a spe...

Hallo All, I have a little Problem with the SubString-Function in SSIS (Derived Column). So on.. That are the possible Input Strings: Toys|Category|Cars|Lego Toys|Hot&New|Girls&Lifestyl...

I have a need to use the DOS command FINDSTR to search in all our source code files mixed with other types of files such as PDF, exe, dll, etc. I do not need to search those binary files. Is there...

I have a text file with a list of macro names (one per line). My final goal is to get a print of how many times the macro's name appears in the files of the current directory. The macro's names ar...