Word in file search utility, DOS

[arjoll]

Just noticed this:

Originally Posted by arjoll

With a single > you'll overwrite with each run and only ever get the results for the first file.

Of course I actually meant the LAST file!

[brenellic2000]

Thanks Arjoll,

Ever optimistic (!), I tried again this morning with the computer 'cold' and it is now finding those 'missing' file entries! 'Find' now seems to work as it should.

I can only presume the computer was suffering heat-stroke from our high summer temperature (this may account for the recent Zip drive run time error problems). Weird things, computers!

[Slothie]

In windows 2000 and later there was a "FINDSTR" command that worked a bit like unixes "grep" command, and could search over multiple files.
According to wikipedia it was in a windows 2000 resource pack as "qgrep" but appeared in other editions as a native command "FINDSTR". I remember using it but not in what versions of DOS it appeared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findstr

[cheerfulcharlie]

Originally Posted by Slothie

In windows 2000 and later there was a "FINDSTR" command that worked a bit like unixes "grep" command, and could search over multiple files.
According to wikipedia it was in a windows 2000 resource pack as "qgrep" but appeared in other editions as a native command "FINDSTR". I remember using it but not in what versions of DOS it appeared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findstr

Great fan of Win 2000 (not to be confused with the dire Windows Millenium) .. it was sort of a bridge between the old dos originated op systems and the modern world. A program like NLite could strip any bloat, add things you needed and make it run very fast indeed.

[G8HQP Dave]

Many years ago I and my colleagues made heavy use of a version of grep written for RSX-11M on a PDP-11.