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Posted: **26 Nov 2013 03:53**

Is there a way to let "find" only display files were the string was found intead of display every searched file?

Example:

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find "text" *.txt

Result:

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---------- README.TXT

---------- TEST.TXT
text

---------- HIT.TXT
text

---------- SNIPPETS.TXT

I'm only interested in this:

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---------- TEST.TXT
text

---------- HIT.TXT
text

Posted: **26 Nov 2013 04:16**

Hi AiroNG, :-)

The findstr command will do what you want:

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findstr /l "text" "*.txt"

It will output only the filenames that contain the matching text. Read findstr’s help for more info. There are many switches to be mastered.

Good luck! ;-)

- SB

Posted: **26 Nov 2013 04:18**

This displays the filename under the found text.

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for %%a in (*.txt) do find "text" < "%%a" && echo  ----------   %%a

You could save each files output and type it after the echo statement, if you need the filename above the beginning of the text.

Posted: **26 Nov 2013 06:03**

@Sponge Belly & @foxidrive
Thanks. Both of your answers do help me a lot!

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