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Posted: **10 Aug 2013 00:01**

At first I make a large text file:

(for /l %%a in (1,1,16000) do @echo(0123456789012345678901234567890123456789)>file

and test some commands from a batch file

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@echo off &SETLOCAL
SET section=123"
SET target=456"
SET base=file"

ECHO start
for /F "delims=:" %%a in ('findstr /NC:"%SECTION%" /C:"%TARGET%" "%BASE%"') do ECHO(%%a
find /N "%SECTION%%TARGET%" "%BASE%
sed "/./!d" "%base%"
grep "123" "%base%"

None of them works. But all work usually at the command prompt. Tested with XP and Win8.
The issue is associated with this question at SO.

Why does this not work and is there a workaround?
Thank you.

Posted: **10 Aug 2013 02:43**

I simplified the test case - it prints all 16000 lines in Win 8 32bit.
It works in XP pro too.

BTW, your code is missing some " quotes Endoro..

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(for /l %%a in (1,1,16000) do @echo 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789)>file

@echo off

ECHO start
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('findstr /N /C:"123" /C:"456" "file"') do ECHO %%a
echo end
pause
findstr /N /C:"123456" "file"
pause

Posted: **10 Aug 2013 13:37**

foxidrive wrote:BTW, your code is missing some " quotes Endoro..

Thanks foxidrive, it works now :oops:

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