Find and grep for windows

We look for option available with Find command using help find. The below command grep for notepad in the tasklist Process running on the system of the window system. Another tool which is grep equivalent in windows is the findstr command. We look for option available with findstr command using help findstr. It is quite a powerful search command like grep and we can use regular expression with it We have a text file, which we will use in our examples.

To find any text occurrence in all the files within a directory simply enter the following at the command prompt. You may also use just grep.

It was not bundled with DOS, but you can get it. For example from Borland Pascal distribution but not for free. I wonder how old are these DOS commands.

If only Mic had given a little bit of attention to another side of the user interface- one as powerful as the command line. It would have the support of majority of the programmers. I used to use grep and cat on unix which came in very handy. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. We can download the grep setup file from the following page. Or simply we can download from the following link directly.

But keep in mind that when new versions have arrived following link will be absolute or old. We will start the installation by clicking to the gre This may require some Administrative privileges. So we will provide the Admin privileges by click Yes to the dialog box.