help!

[glob5]

I AM NEW TO BAT SCRIPT WORLD. MY SCRIPT DOES NOT WANT TO WORK. MY BAT SCRIPT HAS TO start from a path and RECURSIVELY SEARCH ALL THE FILES OF TYPE .TXT THAT HAS THE WORD "MYWORD!" AND WRITE THEIR NAMES TO A LOG FILE.

[dbenham]

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@echo off
set "log=output.log"
set "search=MYWORD!"
set "startPath=."
::Dot implies current directory
(for /f "delims=" %%F in ('dir /s /b "%startPath%\*.txt"') do findstr /c:"%search%" "%%F" >nul && echo %%F)>"%log%"

Dave Benham

[glob5]

How about if I look for a phrase which has two words like this: set "search=MYWORD1 MYWORD2" . Notice the space.

[nitt]

I AM NEW TO BAT SCRIPT WORLD. MY SCRIPT DOES NOT WANT TO WORK. MY BAT SCRIPT HAS TO start from a path and RECURSIVELY SEARCH ALL THE FILES OF TYPE .TXT THAT HAS THE WORD "MYWORD!" AND WRITE THEIR NAMES TO A LOG FILE.

This seems like trollish spam, but I will take it seriously.

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@echo off
dir /b /a /s | find "MYWORD!" > ~tmp.txt
type ~tmp.txt | find ".txt" > log.txt
type ~tmp.txt | find ".TXT" >> log.txt
del ~tmp.txt

That will search all directories and list files containing "MYWORD!" and will only list them if the extensions are ".txt" or ".TXT".

[glob5]

can we search for phrase like "MYWORD1 MYWORD2"?.

[aGerman]

What about

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>"my.log" findstr /msc:"MYWORD1 MYWORD2" "C:\wherever\*.txt"

Note that it's searching in a case-sensitive manner (that could be a problem because it seems your caps lock key is out of order). Otherwise you have to include the /i option (/imsc:).

Regards
aGerman