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findstr

Find specified text within one or more files. More information: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/findstr.

  • Find one or more strings in all files:

findstr "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *

  • Find one or more strings in a piped command’s output:

{{dir}} | findstr "{{string1 string2 ...}}"

  • Find one or more strings in all files recur[s]ively:

findstr /s "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *

  • Find strings using a case-insensitive search:

findstr /i "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *

  • Find strings in all files using regex:

findstr /r "{{regex}}" *

  • Find a literal string (containing spaces) in all text files:

findstr /c:"{{string1 string2 ...}}" *.txt

  • Display the line number before each matching line:

findstr /n "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *

  • Display only the filenames that contain a match:

findstr /m "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *