I get a page full of:
FINDSTR: Line 1 is too long.
FINDSTR: Line 1 is too long.
FINDSTR: Line 1 is too long.
FINDSTR: Line 1 is too long.
FINDSTR: Line 1 is too long.
I'll look this one up when I get home.
Thanks so much for your thoughts.
GP
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- 13 Jul 2012 10:38
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Find text within file
- Replies: 6
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- 13 Jul 2012 10:02
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Find text within file
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4743
Re: Find text within file
You'll be pleased to know that the hangover is gone and the world is a much more cheery place. And you're attempt to fix this foxi has really cheered me up I've continued to play on the command line with find and findstr and I think the problem has something to do with the format the data file is in...
- 13 Jul 2012 05:12
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Find text within file
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4743
Find text within file
Hi guys, I need to run a batch file that: Looks inside a file for the existence of specified txt... and then set a variable to the value of the characters next to that txt. God if I struggle to explain it in English no wonder I can't do it in DOS! So I managed to hack this together (by trial and err...