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I would like to make a small script or program to run a search on a network share and save all hits to a file. Or even open up MS Find fill in the blanks and leave the results up.
I'm searching \\System123\File321
For "XzY"
then "ZyX"
and then XyZ"
Then onto \\System234\File321
For "XzY"
then "ZyX"
and then XyZ"
Any hints or tips on how I should go about this?
(this is for text within the file, not by file name)
this should scan all folders and subsets for *.exe and Append them to dir.txtCode:dir *.exe /s >> dir.txt
this is just one way too do it...
I agree, a batch file is more than enough, here is a good resource
This would work>?Code:cd \\System123\File321
dir *.XzY /s >> dir.txt
dir *.ZyX /s >> dir.txt
dir *.XyZ /s >> dir.txt
cd \\System234\File321
dir *.XzY /s >> dir.txt
dir *.ZyX /s >> dir.txt
dir *.XyZ /s >> dir.txt
Oh, Wait... This won't work. I'm looking for text, not files.
would you be able to search for a string and copy the results to the file?Quote:
Dunno if this utility is on win95/98, but on 2K (and presumably XP):
find /?
Ammo
ammo is correct, if you're trying to find text (plain text) within a file... use the Find command in t he batch... if you are looking for filename/extensions then use my example (dir)...
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from D0S
Searches for a text string in a file or files.
FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]
/V Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.
/C Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
/N Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.
/I Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
"string" Specifies the text string to find.
[drive:][path]filename
Specifies a file or files to search.
If a path is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt
or piped from another command.
I prefer findstr. Has more options.
X:\>findstr /?
Searches for strings in files.
FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file]
[/C:string] [/G:file] [/D:dir list] [/A:color attributes]
[strings] [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]
/B Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line.
/E Matches pattern if at the end of a line.
/L Uses search strings literally.
/R Uses search strings as regular expressions.
/S Searches for matching files in the current directory and all
subdirectories.
/I Specifies that the search is not to be case-sensitive.
/X Prints lines that match exactly.
/V Prints only lines that do not contain a match.
/N Prints the line number before each line that matches.
/M Prints only the filename if a file contains a match.
/O Prints character offset before each matching line.
/P Skip files with non-printable characters
/A:attr Specifies color attribute with two hex digits. See "color /?"
/F:file Reads file list from the specified file(/ stands for console).
/C:string Uses specified string as a literal search string.
/G:file Gets search strings from the specified file(/ stands for console).
/D:dir Search a semicolon delimited list of directories
strings Text to be searched for.
[drive:][path]filename
Specifies a file or files to search.
Use spaces to separate multiple search strings unless the argument is prefixed
with /C. For example, 'FINDSTR "hello there" x.y' searches for "hello" or
"there" in file x.y. 'FINDSTR /C:"hello there" x.y' searches for
"hello there" in file x.y.
Regular expression quick reference:
. Wildcard: any character
* Repeat: zero or more occurances of previous character or class
^ Line position: beginning of line
$ Line position: end of line
[class] Character class: any one character in set
[^class] Inverse class: any one character not in set
[x-y] Range: any characters within the specified range
\x Escape: literal use of metacharacter x
\<xyz Word position: beginning of word
xyz\> Word position: end of word
For full information on FINDSTR regular expressions refer to the online Command
Reference.
I want to search \\System123\File321 (and all subdirectories)
For the work XyZ in all files in all subdirectories and then search for word ZyX and so on. I want the filename containing these words to be printed out to a list in which I can examine. Or better yet, back up these files to another directory or something along those lines.
would it be possible to do a find using the MS feature find, save the find, and type a batch to recall the find feature from the saved information??? Where would this information be stored once it is saved?
Simple find-string with a batch-file. Put the few lines below into a batch file (in my example FINDS.BAT).
Code:@echo off
FINDSTR /S /I /M %1 %2 >> match.lst
echo -- Above search for: %1 -- >> match.lst
echo. >> match.lst
Example of use: FINDS.BAT "find this text" *.*
This will search all files in the current directory and subdirectories for files containing "find this text" and write a list over matches to match.lst. To limit search to a specified type of files change *.* to the kind of ext you wanna search, ie: *.txt
Dont forgett the "" around the text on the command line.
I wrote this batch-file on Win2000, dont know if it will work on other M$ products.
Dont know if it's something like this you wanna do?
~micael