In computing, find is a command in the command line interpreters (shells) of DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. 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.
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The Unix command find performs an entirely different function analogous to dir /s.
Overview
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.
Syntax
Arguments:
"string" This command-line argument specifies the text string to find.[drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files to search.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.
References
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