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From: bingham@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (David Bingham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: "finding" text in files
Message-ID: <11270007@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
Date: 1 Jun 91 00:01:20 GMT
References: <16428@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA
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Have you got a copy of 'grep' setting around? That will do it.

The alternative would be to write a fancy batch program that would
do some fancy piping. i.e. For %1 in... do this and pipe the output
into this file here....

(short pause whilst I actually look up what I'm talking about...)


	@Echo off
	FOR %%A in (%1) do find "%2" %%A >> %3

Copy that into a batch file. The calling syntax is:

	batch.bat fileset string file_name

	fileset = file to search (wildcards allowed)
	string = string you are looking for (i.e. E:)
	file_name = the file you want the results stored in

I hope that's clear. Drop me a line if it isn't.

David
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