On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 22:47:33 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Can anybody recommend a very nice DOS-based text string search > program that can search for a phrase throughout an entire > directory full of text files? Also would like very much to get > a search utility that can search for phrases within an archive > of pkzipped text files
> I need such a program mainly for the purpose of looking for some > very old archived emails. FIND.EXE from OpenDos v7.01 Can do #1 but not #2 FIND R1.47 Find text string Copyright (c) 1987,1996 Caldera, Inc. All rights reserved. FIND [/Help] [options] "search string" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:][path]filename[.ext]...] /B change display format /C show only the number of lines that contained "string" /F show only the name of files that contain "string" /I case-insensitive search (default) /N display line numbers /P pause after each page is displayed /S search files in sub-directories /U case-sensitive search (e.g. 'A' does not match 'a') /V display lines not containing "string" @ the filename that follows is the name of a file list d: drive which find is to search path directory where search is to begin filename.ext file to be searched (wildcards allowed) Multiple files may be specified on the command line. If no files are specified find will read from standard input. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/
