Re: Word in file search utility, DOS
I paid 10p for a copy of "Field Guide to MS DOS 6.2" in a charity shop some years ago. A quick scan through it suggests that the commands FIND, FOR, and SORT, together with "piping" , can be used to search for text strings in a multiple files. Examples are given. Scans of the relevant pages attached.
No personal experience with using any of these commands. I have only used the book once, when the driver software for a LCD monitor for my WIN 98 PC managed to mess up the system so badly that I had to operate the PC in command mode, echoing the screen to a printer, to get it working again.
I loved Xtree Gold: we used to use it at GEC in the early 1990's. I still have a copy of the software on a floppy, but I couldn't get it to run on my PC.
Last edited by emeritus; 24th Aug 2019 at 10:24 pm.
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