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XP COMMAND DESCRIPTION
APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





FIND  Search for text within a file.
FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]

/V  Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.
/C Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
/N  Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.
/I Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
"string"  Specifies the text string to find.
[drive:][path]filename  Specifies a file or files to search.

If a pathname is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt or piped from another command.

EXAMPLES

find /c "REM" c:\autoexec.bat = This would find any "REM" statement in the autoexec.bat.

find "hope" *.txt = This would search for any text file (.txt) that contains the text hope in the current directory. Below is an example of the output you may see. As can be seen from the below example the only file that contains hope is the CH.TXT file.

---------- ACTIVE SETUP LOG.TXT

---------- CH.TXT

---------- MODEMDET.TXT

---------- OEWABLOG.TXT

---------- SCHEDLGU.TXT

---------- SETUPLOG.TXT
APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





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