How do you read a string of characters in dos

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groveera
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How do you read a string of characters in dos

#1 Post by groveera » 03 May 2013 15:14

How do you read a string of characters in dos that contains quotation marks?
I'm using the dos find command and I was to find something that has a quote within it.
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Endoro
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Re: How do you read a string of characters in dos

#2 Post by Endoro » 03 May 2013 15:33

I can read it with a for loop.
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Re: How do you read a string of characters in dos

#3 Post by foxidrive » 03 May 2013 22:56

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findstr \" file.txt
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