Questions tagged [findstr]
Use this for question about the DOS/cmd `findstr` command for searching for strings in files
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how to extract a specific part of a string from character 7 to 17 and save it in new txt file (findstr, gnu32-sed or other tool)
How do I extract a specific part of a string from character 7 - 17 using regex via the command line?
My string is ThisString and in the file data I have a lot of strings, but I need only ThisString ...
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Is there a better way to mitigate this obscure color bug when piping to FINDSTR inside a parenthesized block of (.bat) code?
In the following .BAT file, test 2 demonstrates the color bug inside a parenthesized block of code, test 3 demonstrates the bug inside a FOR loop, and test 4 shows how the bug can be mitigated by ...
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findstr skipping some files on Windows 10
For some reason, when I run the following command on Windows 10 some of the expected *.cpp files are missing from the output:
findstr -siprm i *.cpp
Removing the -s option or choosing to search all ...
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How to Replace a string in a file using windows batch
I have a file say C:/temp/example.xml
The contents are as below.
https://example.net/fndstring>
https://example.net/fndstring>
I need a windows batch command to find the line with string "The link"...
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How to correctly write regex to findstr for cmd?
I am trying to only print UUID in windows and running following command:
wmic csproduct get uuid | findstr /R “[a-zA-Z0-9]{5}-[a-zA-Z0-9]{5}-[a-zA-Z0-9]{5}-[a-zA-Z0-9]{5}”
Above command returns ...
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Pipe error in [Echo !file!|findstr]
with this script I read a Log file with filenames and search a string (with wildcards) in these list but the pipe for the findstr function doesn't work.
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f %%A in ...
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search a UCS-2 file using batch
I have a file that is encoded in UCS-2 that is constantly being updated. I need to keep checking this file for a string of recurring text and then parsing the info. I originally tried using findstr ...
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Become Windows 10 search compliant with the fuzzy matching?
Fuzzy matching allows some mistakes like inversion of two letter when you are searching a string.
For sample, you want to find the files that contains the string: "Albert Einstein". The "fuzzy ...
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findstr test if contains characters other thank given batch
I have a batch script where user input is needed. However, I only want to allow a-z, 0-9, @#$].~+-=_/\:;. Is there a way to use findstr to make sure there are no characters other than those? I've ...
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Excel check if combination of data exists in a certain range
See question 1337631
Check if a specific range of values in one dataset exists in another dataset
This solution works great, but what if you want to check WITHIN the same range?
Want to use this for ...
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Batch File, dir | findstr within a for loop
Let me preface by admitting that I am a complete noob at batch files... and programming language in general.
I am trying to write a batch file that allows the user to input a partial filename, and it ...
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How can I “findstr” all links from a source-code of a webpage?
I want to have just the https-Link in a seperate file. How do to that without getting the complete line of the code, just the links?
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findstr search including return character
Is there a way I can use findstr to search for:
<char>Hello there my friend,</char>
<continued>this is two lines of text</continued>
I need to search for a string that ...
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Equivalent of a wildcard in find for batch?
I'm almost certain this is a duplicate but I was unable to find it after a lot of searching so forgive me.
I'm looking for a way to have the equivalent of a wildcard in the find command. For ...
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How to echo color quotes in this batch function?
I have the following script with a colored echo function:
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do rem"') ...
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Have another if option in the for loop in a batch file
I have this functioning For /F loop:
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (New.txt) do (
echo "%%A" | findstr /C:"[B]" 1>nul
if !errorlevel!==1 echo "%%A"
set line=%...
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How do I find files containing “string A” and NOT containing “string B” and output their names into a file?
I was looking at this other question, but wasn't sure how to combine these queries together.
I started off with this, but it doesn't seem to work:
findstr /S /M "string A" *.vb | findstr /S /M /V "...
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find string from multiple files and replace it without creating new file
I want to find string e.g. "date" from my files of a folder which contains multiple ".c" and ".h" files in it and replace it with "date 24-April-2018" using batch file. what should do? Please see ...
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Can't connect to a wireless network using cmd
Im trying to connect my phone to my PC via FTP and open the FTP with Windows Explorer using the cmd.
Below are the codes:
@echo off
echo Setup connection to ftp 192.168.43.1
ipconfig | findstr /...
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Find a string at the beginning of all lines in a file and save to another file
I have tried quite a few options with no luck for this task. I would really like to do this as batch file but my attempts fail to get the desired result.
I have tried a lot of different commands with ...
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grep -r (or -R) does not search inside subfolders
It has been some time since I don't use linux, using windows instead.
In windows whenever I want to search for a string on files and files inside subfolders I do (for example for cs files)
findstr /...
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FINDSTR: Line is too long
Windows FINDSTR command is useful for sifting through large amounts of data; it filters out lines of text that match or don't match a specified pattern or string (like GNU/BSD grep).
But it refuses ...
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Searching for files within a number of folders in command line in Windows 10
I'm trying to find the proper syntax for finding all the files with a specific name that are in a multitude of folders. So - I have a directory with 100+ folders, in each folder there are files that ...
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How do I extract the IPv4 IP Addresses from the output of ipconfig, and then filter it so that my output only includes a list of the IP addresses?
How do I extract the IPv4 IP Address from the output of ipconfig
I read through this post and it was very helpful. I was just wondering if the is a way I can extract only the IP Addresses (xxx.xxx....
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A powershell version of for /f (|findstr) for Unicode folders/files
Here is a small script I wrote that recursively scan a directory without some parent-subdirectories and extracts some attributes of the files within it.
@echo off
echo Path,Name,Extension,Size > ...
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Windows Find Regex - findstr LookBehind
I have this string:
DisplayName REG_SZ Paquete de controladores de Windows - Intel Corporation (iaStorA) HDC (07/22/2015 14.5.2.1088)
Which I have taken from:
Reg Query HKLM\Software\...
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How to exclude a folder from a string search
>>"results\txtmail.txt" findstr /i /p /s mail %userprofile%\*.txt
Now, what if I want to exclude C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 from the ...
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Copy /b and Findstr /v
I'm trying to merge a lot of logs together that is in one folder.
This is what I've tried to do.
copy /b *.log test.log | findstr /V "xyz" test.log >> final_test.log
It doesn't seem to be ...
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Use findstr to Search a Sub Directory for a String?
I can use the following to search for text files that contain the word "string" from the Windows Command Prompt:
C:\>findstr /spin /c:"string" *.txt
What if I want to search a sub-directory? The ...
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Windows XCOPY results from FIND command
Windows 7 CMD
I can retrieve a list of files by the following command dir /b | find "TENDER_NUM 2". I'm trying to copy all the files that were returned by find into another folder.
I've tried:
for /...
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Batch: Return the matching lines from pipe's output to the console with regex
I have the following domain checking bash script in Linux:
#!/bin/bash
TLD='.com'
while read -r domain; do
whois -H $domain$TLD | grep -oPaq '^.*(Creation Date|record created).*$'
if [ $? -eq 0 ...
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How to go through a list of installed programs and take out any line with Microsoft-related strings?
This is on Windows 7 using command line and batch files.
I was looking to examine my program list and uninstall a good amount of junk and update a good amount of outdated programs. I used a wmic ...
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How do I extract the IPv4 IP Address from the output of ipconfig
I'm attempting to have cmd copy only a specific set of character from a command output. I've been able to select the line that the phrase exists in but from there I am lost. Here is my command so far.
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How to use FINDSTR to search in a specific line?
I have a file example.txt and a string "Hi" and the beginning of the 15th line.
The required code for findstr should be:
findstr /b /n "Hi" "example.txt"
Is there something that can search for "Hi" ...
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Find “mystring” in files and return only certain portion of matching lines
I have below command to list out every file in current directory and it's sub-directories containing "mystring" along with the line where search string match is found.
@echo off
setlocal
findstr /s ...
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Findstr: match filenames containing exactly a single dot
I am desparately trying to find all files within a folder and its subdirectories containing exactly a single dot. Reading the documentation of findstr I came up with this kind-of-regex, but it still ...
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find certain item of a file by using command line tool in windows 7
recently I used
findstr "ItemThatIsBeeingSearchedFor" C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts > J:\documents\HostsFile\ResultOfSearch.txt
in order to output a certain entry of the hosts file into ...
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Get URL from HTML file using FindStr
I'd like to preface this by saying that I'm very new to the command prompt and I've been only using it for some WGET and YOUTUBE-DL, and that I'm on a Windows 8 PC.
I'd like to get a bunch of links ...
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Most efficient command to search the first line of many files (windows)
I am new to the windows ecosystem. I have been tasked with writing a program that will search several 10's (maybe even 100's) of thousands of files for a particular string. The string that must be ...
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Delete scheduled taskname containing space
I want to delete scheduled tasks that start with "Adobe Acrobat" eg "Adobe Acrobat 123","Adobe Acrobat 456","Adobe Acrobat 789"
schtasks /Delete /TN Adobe* /F
This command fails to find any tasks ...
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findstr DOS Command's multiple string argument
findstr /v "black" File1.txt
Above DOS command will display content of 'File1.txt' which are not matching string "black".
How to modify this command , if I need to filter words "black" and "white" ?...
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Use findstr to output characters 1-13
I have the code: findstr /B ^121.*.CATDrawing catdrawing.txt
How to show from the first to thirteenth character?
1220112000001A.CATDrawing -> 1220112000001
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Windows 7 cmd Findstr for 2 strings a AND b(not OR)
I want to know if there is a way to use findstr to find only those lines in a text file which have both strings a and b.
The following:
findstr "aaa bbb" test.txt
will find all lines with aaa or bbb.
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Batch to retrieve TFS version erroring in FOR /F where TFS attempts to PIPE to findstr
I have this partial batch, but it gives me an error (On 64 bit installations)
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
REM Figure out what ProgramFiles Root we run the command
SET ProgFiles86Root=%...
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Getting value from file using Windows Batch scripting
Using Windows Batch scripting, I want to get the max_volume value (-2.9 in the following example) from a ffmpeg output written to a log file:
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0000000005428b20] n_samples: ...
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What is the difference between regular and literal expressions in FINDSTR?
What is the difference between /R and /C?
FINDSTR [options] [/F:file] [/C:string] [/G:file]
[/D:DirList] [/A:color] [/OFF[LINE]] [string(s)] [pathname(s)]
/C:string Use string as a literal ...
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Script to Find Certain words and delete those lines in a file
EDITED THE QUESTION as i am open to different type of solutions unlike just batch previously
I am on Windows & some suggested SED etc. So i am OK with these 3rd party standalone exe's using ...
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In windows, is there a way to count the amount of times a string appears in a file
I am currently trying to write a batch script and at this point, I need to find a string, "null", and determine how many times it is shown in the file.
I'm downloading an API from a website every-...
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Dir and Findstr commands taking a long time to complete in Batch File
dir %DRIVE_NAME%: /S /C /A-D /Q /T:C | findstr ".zip$ .doc$ .xls$ .xpt$ .cpt$ .cpo$ .xlsx$ .pdf$ .dat$ .txt$ .docx$ .csv$" >> file.info
I am using above command to list all information in file, ...
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Use Batch findstr for files with whitespaces
I'm trying to search for a string in a given file. This file can have whitespaces in its name and I'm having trouble with the Batch file.
I can easily do this by console getting the correct results:
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