Visual Studio's search in folders is by far the fastest I've found. I believe it intelligently searches only text non-binary files, and subsequent searches in the same folder are extremely fast, unlike with the other tools likely the text files fit in the windows disk cache. In Windows 10 I have discovered how to search the content of the files instead of just the file names by starting my search with content:. However, if what I am searching for is a phrase instead of just a single word it finds all files with any of the words in the phrase instead of the entire phrase intact.
I have tried adding quotes and it does not make a difference. If I search for content: windows explorer help or content: 'windows explorer help' it will return all files that contain any of the words windows, explorer, or help. We can express a string start and end characters. These regex expressions can be used with findstr command. In this example we will search a string which starts with j and ends with n.
Up to now we have searched terms in a single files. Searching single file is not efficient in most situations. Findstr provides the feature to search multiple files. In previous example we have searched all files in current working directory. But there is an options where we will search in all current working directories and sub directories too.
Find is another great command line tool that every Windows user should know about because it can be used to search content of files for specific strings of text. As with every command prompt based tool in Windows, there are certain switches and parameters you will need to know in order to use the tools effectively. These are listed and explained below.
Like every tool in windows, you will need to know how to enter your commands. The syntax below is the perfect model. Before we get started, you should download our three sample text documents which we will use for the test.
These documents each contain a paragraph of text with a few similar word groupings. Once you have downloaded these three documents, you can copy them into any folder on your computer. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will put all three text documents on the desktop. Now you will need to open up an elevated command prompt window. Remember to put your search string in quotation marks and change the path to match the folder where your documents are saved.
You will notice that no results showed up. The reason you have no results is because FIND is looking for an exact match to your search string. Now you can see that FIND brought up one line that matches the search string, which means it is working.
You will notice that the search terms were found in both documents and the sentences in which they were found, are listed under their corresponding file names and locations. Your search results should look like the image below. Alternatively, you could use this command to check all text files.
If you want to know how many lines there are in a file, you can use the search command below. Remember to add a space between all your switches. I agree their terms are confusing, they also say "The information provided under the domain dostips. I'm not sure I have ever read any terms and conditions and been happy This is great. I love answers that don't involve downloading something else to do it.
Don't really have the time to debug it right now. Once removed, this worked fine. Here is the REPL. BAT script. Full documentation is embedded within the script.
BAT version 6. The double quotes are not considered part of the argument. The quotes are required if the parameter contains a batch token delimiter like space, tab, comma, semicolon. Full support is provided for substituion patterns available to the JScript replace method. The option characters are case insensitive, and may appear in any order. Unaltered lines are discarded. The A option is incompatible with the M option unless the S option is present.
This also enables preservation of the original line terminators. If the M option is not present, then every printed line is terminated with carriage return and line feed.
The name of the source environment variable is specified in the next argument after the option string. An undefined variable is treated as an empty string. Both Search and Replace support all of the extended escape sequences if both the X and L opions are combined. CreateObject "WScript. Item 2. Write str2 ; if str1! WriteLine str2 ; if str1!
Incorporate user supplied JScript Translation facility similar to unix tr, only it also supports regex search and JScript replace Discard non-matching text Prefix output lines with line number and more As always, full documentation is embedded within the script. Great stuff! Edit - Added the A option to only print lines that have been modified. This is a slick approach, it will come in handy for several other tasks as well.
Thanks for posting it. Why don't you put it up on GitHub or as a Gist? If you need help with that, let me know. Show 9 more comments. Use FNR Use the fnr utility. Has a "Generate command line button" to create command line text to put in batch file.
Multi-line patterns: The GUI allows you to easily work with multi-line patterns. In FART you'd have to manually escape line breaks. Allows you to select text file encoding. Also has an auto detect option. Aman Aman 10 10 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. This is nice. Being able to generate the command line from the gui is a nice simple feature that got me going quickly. Very useful tool.
Tried FART before but the documentation is out of date. Cool tool,it even supports regular expression. This is something that FART is missing. Thanks for indicating this tool. Single exe, great replacement for FART which is no longer developed and misses regex ; and PowerShell syntax is sooo unbearable.
This is most useful. Pat Ferruccio Ferruccio Use cygwin cygwin. It's the next best thing to actually installing linux. It's better if one can provide a solution that doesn't rely on installing cygwin.
Gnuwin32 and UnxUtils are stand-alone binaries built for Windows. They are not dependent on cygwin. AndrewJohnson Opinion and information are two different things.
I know I am late to the party.. Leptonator Leptonator 3, 2 2 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 50 50 bronze badges. The original request was to replace "FOO" with "BAR" in a text file using a batch script and with preferably built-in functions. If anything I was thanking the Google Groups post I had found which works fantastic and we still use it to this day. Also, see posts and responses like these as being helpful for users coming down the road as well.
I fail to see your comment about file copy.. Sure, it takes the content of one file and echo's the result into another file, but based on the data, it does trim and parse off the needed information. I would recommend giving it a try first. Remember that. I am not here to debate semantics.
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