If we want to search only text files we can also provide extension like *.txt like below. In order to search multiple files we can use * . Findstr provides the feature to search multiple files. Searching single file is not efficient in most situations. Up to now we have searched terms in a single files. $ findstr /R "j.*n" users.txt Use Regular Expression Search In Multiple Files We will enable regular expression search /R . In this example we will search a string which starts with j and ends with n . These regex expressions can be used with findstr command. We can express a string start and end characters. Regular expressions are used to specify the structure of the string not the whole characters of the string. $ findstr "ismail john" users.txt Search Multiple Strings Use Regular Expression In this example we will search terms ismail , john . We can provide multiple strings to findstr command to search. In some situations we may need to search multiple terms. In previous example we have provided single term to search. $ findstr /I "ISMAIL" users.txt Ignore Case Search Multiple Strings In this example we will search for ISMAIL in a in case sensitive option. We can change this behaviour according to our needs and search terms in case sensitive so given search term will match all cases accordingly. Case sensitive means all provided string upper and lower cases are searched according to their cases and no case change will be made. While searching terms the default behaviour is case sensitive. In this example we will search ismail in file users.txt $ findstr "ismail" users.txt Search String In A FileĪs we can see we provided the search term or string in double quotes to prevents errors and misuses. In this example we will only provide the string and file name. This search will use default options where we will look them next steps. The most basic usage of findstr searching a term in a file. Syntax of the findstr command is like below.
Help about findstr command can be get with /? option.
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How To Find Specified Strings In Files With Find Command In Windows From Command Line With Examples Help Keep in mind that this is different than Windows find command which can be found following tutorial.
In this tutorial we will look different usage types of the findstr command. But searching binary files and content will not give good results. These file contents expected to be text and string but binary binary files are accepted too. Windows provides findstr tool to search file contents.
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