I forgot about that, I am so used to using Unxtools, good reco :) From: Joe Tinney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Find text in files
Have you tried findstr.exe? I've not used it much but I know that what you are asking for is exactly what it does. Looks like the /m switch will output just file names that have the string and if you output that to a file it should get you what you need. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490907.aspx HTH From: Glen Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Find text in files I desperately need a pointer to get me going on this. We have a machine somewhere that has been sending tons of spam through our exchange server. I stopped the smtp relay server before all of them got sent but now have a problem. The outgoing queue has 4000 plus files that I need to either delete or move to a different folder based on the text in each file. I tried using the dos find command but its output lists every file even if it doesn't include the text. So here is what I need. Something that will search a file for a string, if the string is found, output the name of the file to a text file. Then I can use the for command to move the file to a junk folder. Run this a couple of times to get rid of the spam and what I have left are the legit emails that need to be processed. Any help/suggestions/pointers appreciated. Glen. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
