FIND
: Locating a Text String in a File
You use the FIND
command to search for a string inside a file. Here’s the syntax:
FIND [/C] [/I] [/N] [/V] "string" filename
/C
Displays the number of times that string
appears in filename
.
/I
Performs a case-insensitive search.
/N
Displays each match of string
in filename
with the line number in filename
where each match occurs.
/V
Displays the lines in filename
that don’t contain string
.
string
The string you want to search for.
filename
The file you want to search in. (Note that you can’t use wildcards with the FIND
command.) If the filename contains one or more spaces, surround it with double quotation marks.
For example, to find the string Xbox in a file named WishList.txt
, you use the following command: ...
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