Developer(s) | Microsoft, IBM, DR, Datalight, Novell, Jim Hall, ReactOS Contributors |
---|---|
Initial release | March 1983 |
Written in |
MS-DOS:
x86 assembly language FreeDOS, ReactOS: C |
Operating system | MS-DOS, PC DOS, FlexOS, SISNE plus, DR DOS, ROM-DOS, FreeDOS, 4690 OS, Windows, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, ReactOS |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | MS-DOS:
MIT FreeDOS, ReactOS: GPLv2+ |
In
computing, find
is a
command in the
command-line interpreters (
shells) of a number of
operating systems. It is used to search for a specific text string in a file or files. The command sends the specified lines to the
standard output device.
[1]
[2]
The find
command is a
filter to find lines in the input data stream that contain or don't contain a specified string and send these to the output data stream. It does not support
wildcard characters.
[3]
The command is available in
DOS,
[4]
Digital Research
FlexOS,
[5]
IBM/
Toshiba
4690 OS,
[6] IBM
OS/2,
[7]
Microsoft
Windows,
[8] and
ReactOS.
[9] On
MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 2 and later.
[10]
DR DOS 6.0
[11] and
Datalight
ROM-DOS
[12] include an implementation of the find
command. The
FreeDOS version was developed by
Jim Hall and is licensed under the
GPL.
[13]
The
Unix command
find
performs an entirely different function, analogous to
forfiles
on Windows. The rough equivalent to the Windows find
is the Unix
grep
.
[14]
FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[...]]
Arguments:
"string"
This
command-line argument specifies the text string to find.[drive:][path]filename
Specifies a file or files in which to search the specified string.Flags:
/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.Note: If a pathname is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt or piped from another command.
C:\>find "keyword" < inputfilename > outputfilename
C:\>find /V "any string" FileName
find
find
find
Developer(s) | Microsoft, IBM, DR, Datalight, Novell, Jim Hall, ReactOS Contributors |
---|---|
Initial release | March 1983 |
Written in |
MS-DOS:
x86 assembly language FreeDOS, ReactOS: C |
Operating system | MS-DOS, PC DOS, FlexOS, SISNE plus, DR DOS, ROM-DOS, FreeDOS, 4690 OS, Windows, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, ReactOS |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | MS-DOS:
MIT FreeDOS, ReactOS: GPLv2+ |
In
computing, find
is a
command in the
command-line interpreters (
shells) of a number of
operating systems. It is used to search for a specific text string in a file or files. The command sends the specified lines to the
standard output device.
[1]
[2]
The find
command is a
filter to find lines in the input data stream that contain or don't contain a specified string and send these to the output data stream. It does not support
wildcard characters.
[3]
The command is available in
DOS,
[4]
Digital Research
FlexOS,
[5]
IBM/
Toshiba
4690 OS,
[6] IBM
OS/2,
[7]
Microsoft
Windows,
[8] and
ReactOS.
[9] On
MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 2 and later.
[10]
DR DOS 6.0
[11] and
Datalight
ROM-DOS
[12] include an implementation of the find
command. The
FreeDOS version was developed by
Jim Hall and is licensed under the
GPL.
[13]
The
Unix command
find
performs an entirely different function, analogous to
forfiles
on Windows. The rough equivalent to the Windows find
is the Unix
grep
.
[14]
FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[...]]
Arguments:
"string"
This
command-line argument specifies the text string to find.[drive:][path]filename
Specifies a file or files in which to search the specified string.Flags:
/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.Note: If a pathname is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt or piped from another command.
C:\>find "keyword" < inputfilename > outputfilename
C:\>find /V "any string" FileName
find
find
find