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findstr — Find specified text within one or more files. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows

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Problem

How to use the findstr command: Find specified text within one or more files. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/findstr>.

Solution

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-[i]nsensitive 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 [n]umber before each matching line:

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

Display only the filenames that contain a [m]atch:

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

Code Snippets

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-[i]nsensitive search

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

Find strings in all files using `regex`

findstr /r "{{regex}}" *

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