Hi Steve, On 7/2/2025 10:51, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2025, Bruno Ribeiro via Freedos-devel wrote: > >> What's the DOS equivalent of the Unix find-grep combo for searching >> recursively within a directory all files matching a given criteria for >> strings within them matching a given expression? >> >> Put in other words, more simply, how do I find within \freedos hierarchy >> which text files have the string "foobar" occurring in them? >> >> Looking for a DOS-centric way of doing that. As last resort I know I >> can always install DJGPP's find and grep. > > On PC DOS 7, there's find /s, but I don't think any other version of DOS > (including DR DOS or Win9x) supports that and I have no idea about FreeDOS.
Unfortunately, it seems FreeDOS does not support it as well: C:\FREEDOS>find/? FreeDOS Find, version 3.0 GNU GPLv2 - copyright 1994-2007 by Jim Hall, Eric Auer and Imre Leber FIND: Prints all lines of a file that contain a string FIND [ /C ] [ /I ] [ /N ] [ /V ] "string" [ file... ] /C Only count the matching lines /I Ignore case /N Show line numbers /V Print lines that do not contain the string C:\FREEDOS> _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
