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Help Needed in Text File

Posted: 14 Feb 2015 22:30
by born2achieve
Hi, I have a folder which has 20 text files and i need to find a word "Core" on the text files and and need to list out the file name where the text "Core" exists.

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for /R %%a in (C:\Sample\*.txt) do find "%Core" %%a >> output.txt


But the above code is not working as expected. any sample code to achieve this please

Re: Help Needed in Text File

Posted: 14 Feb 2015 23:31
by Squashman
Findstr /m /s "Core" *.txt

Re: Help Needed in Text File

Posted: 14 Feb 2015 23:43
by born2achieve
Hi Squashman,

I did copy your code and created .bat file and executed. id didn't do anything. no reaction. actually i supposed ot get a output file with file names where the keyword exists.

Any help plesse

Re: Help Needed in Text File

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 00:29
by ShadowThief
If you get no output from that command, then there are no files that contain the word "Core"

Re: Help Needed in Text File

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 00:34
by ShadowThief
However, if you think there might be instances of "core", "CORE", "CoRe", or some other weird casing going on in the files, you can try

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findstr /m /s /i "core" C:\Sample\*.txt>>output.txt

Re: Help Needed in Text File

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 04:02
by foxidrive
born2achieve wrote:Hi Squashman,

I did copy your code and created .bat file and executed. id didn't do anything. no reaction.


Did you call your batch file findstr.bat ?

Re: Help Needed in Text File

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 08:54
by born2achieve
Hi Shadow, your solution worked perfectly. thank you.

thanks everyone who participated on this post.