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PREAMBLE

Tutorial expresses the author's subjective ideas and conform to AAL license.

Description

Commandline tool to find text in files.

Intro

Use RUN dialog to start CMD. For that use keyboard combiation Win+r, type cmd and hit Enter button on your keyboard.

Next Level

cd c:\

md temp

OR

mkdir temp

cd temp

mkdir atempdir

type nul > filename.txt

dir

explorer .

echo New line of ascii characters in this text file > filename.txt

more filename.txt

OR

type filename.txt

echo Second line of text in this file >> filename.txt

echo Third ^(3rd^) line >> filename.txt

more filename.txt

echo how you already noticed^, to write a special character^, you must at first use a Caret^^ sign >> filename.txt

more filename.txt

(echo 1st & echo 2nd & echo. & echo 4th) >> filename.txt

more filename.txt

(echo. & echo. &  echo Text & echo Another text) >> filename.txt

more filename.txt

findstr /S /N /B New *.*

Where

/S - Searches the current directory and all subdirectories

/N - Prints the line number of each line that matches

/B - Matches the text pattern if it is at the beginning of a line

*.* - all files with all extensions

findstr /L /N /S /I line *.*

Where

/L - Processes search strings literally

/N - Prints the line number of each line that matches

/S - Searches the current directory and all subdirectories

/I - Ignores the case of the characters when searching for the string

*.* - all files with all extensions

findstr /?

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