Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/09/17:49:43
On Fri, 07 Mar 1997 09:57:31 -0600 Programming <sysdev AT mb DOT sympatico DOT ca>
writes:
>I know that what I want to do is possible in Unix,
>but is it possible to do in DOS?
>
>There are strings in text files on the
>hard drive. I want to search the entire
>hard drive for character strings.
>
>The command:
>
>DIR /S /E will give all files in the
>current, and all subdirectories.
>
>The FIND command will find all
>character strings, in a file.
>
>I want to search all files on the hard
>drive for a specific character string;
>in the root directory, and all subdirectories.
>ALL files.
>
>
>How do I pipe these commands (or other commands)
>together in order to do this in DOS?
>
>
>Thanks in Advance
>
GREP has been ported to DOS.
...Chambers
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