findstr

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findstr is a shell command that searches for text in files[1] and prints matching lines to standard output.[2] The command provides similar functionality as find, but findstr supports some regular expression operators. However, findstr does not support UTF-16 whereas find does. findstr cannot search for null bytes commonly found in Unicode computer files.[3]

findstr was first released as part of the Windows 2000 Resource Kit under the name qgrep.[4] The command is available in Windows[5][6] and ReactOS.[7]

Use

The command syntax can be described as:

findstr FLAGS TEXT PATH...
TEXT
Text to search for.
PATH
Path to a file.

FLAGS:

/B
Match pattern if at the beginning of a line.
/E
Match pattern if at the end of a line.
/L
Use search strings literally.
/R
Use search strings as regular expressions.
/S
Search for matching files in the current directory and all subdirectories.
/I
Ignore case for matching.
/X
Print lines that match exactly.
/V
Print lines that do not match.
/N
Print the line number before each line that matches.
/M
Print only the file name if a file contains a match.
/O
Print character offset before each matching line.
/P
Skip files with non-printable characters.
/OFF[LINE]
Do not skip files with offline attribute set.
/A:attr
Specifies color attribute with two hex digits. See "color /?"
/F:file
Reads file list from the specified file (/ for console).
/C:string
Use specified string as a literal search string.
/G:file
Get search strings from the specified file (/ for console).
/D:dir
Search a semicolon delimited list of directories
/?
Print help information about the command.

Example

The following command searches the file named "services.txt" for lines containing "network" ignoring case.

findstr /i "network" services.txt

See also

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References

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Further reading

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