From:	Programming <sysdev AT mb DOT sympatico DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Search DOS hard drive question
Date:	Fri, 07 Mar 1997 09:57:31 -0600
Organization:	ADP Systems Partnership
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I know that what I want to do is possible in Unix, 
but is it possible to do in DOS? 

There are strings in text files on the 
hard drive.  I want to search the entire
hard drive for character strings.  

The command: 

DIR /S /E will give all files in the 
current, and all subdirectories.

The FIND command will find all 
character strings, in a file.  

I want to search all files on the hard 
drive for a specific character string; 
in the root directory, and all subdirectories.
ALL files.  


How do I pipe these commands (or other commands)
together in order to do this in DOS? 


Thanks in Advance

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