Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 16:59:47 -0600 (CST)
From: Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>
To: Programming <sysdev AT mb DOT sympatico DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Search DOS hard drive question
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You can do this in Windows 95 very easily. In the find you go to advanced
options and type a text you want a find.

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Programming wrote:

> 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
>