Commodore PC - Find

MS-DOS Commands 57
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Find
fi Purpose:
Searches for a specific string of text in a file or files.
(i Syntax:
find [/v] [/c] [/n] "string" [drive:]\pathname]
M Comments:
Find is a filter that takes as options a sfrmg (a group of charac
ters) and a series of filenames. After searching the files given on
the command line, find displays any lines it has found that con
tain the specified string. In your command line, this string must
be enclosed in double quotation marks.
If you do not specify a pathname, find takes input from its
standard input (usually the keyboard) and displays any lines that
contain the specified string.
The switches for find are as follows:
/v Displays all lines not containing the specified string.
/c Prints only the count of lines that contain a match in each
of the files.
/n Precedes each line by its relative line number in the file.
Note You must type double quotation marks around a string that
already has double quotation marks.
Examples:
The following command displays all lines from a file named
pencil, ad that contain the string "Automatic Pencil Sharpener":
find "Automatic Pencil Sharpener" pencil.ad
The next command causes ms-dos to display all names of the files
on the disk in drive B that do not contain the string "date":
Find
The Find switches
dir b: 8 find /v "date"