Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar!helios.ucsc.edu!ted From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: "finding" text in files Message-ID: <16428@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 31 May 91 18:06:44 GMT Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Reply-To: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) Distribution: usa Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz Lines: 16 We are getting ready to go from DOS 3.3 to 4.01 so we can use our larger disks more effectively. As a result of having many partitions, there are many batch files that refer to E: or F: that will have to be modified when those partitions go away. So the question is: Is there any way to use DOS filters (like FIND) to print a list of the batch files that contain an "E:" or an "F:"? The problem with useing FIND directly is that it won't take wild cards so I'd have to manually feed it all the batch file names. (computers are suppose to be smart) :-) Please reply by E-Mail as I am way behind in reading news. Thanks to all (any) who answer... -ted- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ted@helios.ucsc.edu |"He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the W (408)459-2110 |Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness H (408)423-2444 |and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8 (RSV)