Quincy Center for Technical Education
Computer Technology Department

Find

Searches for a specific string of text in a file or files.

After searching the specified files, find displays any lines of text that contain the specified string.

find [/v] [/c] [/n] [/i] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[...]]

Parameters

/v

Displays all lines not containing the specified string.

/c

Displays only a count of the lines that contain the specified string.

/n

Precedes each line with the file's line number.

/i

Specifies that the search is not to be case sensitive.

"string"

Specifies the group of characters you want to search for. You must enclose the text for string in quotation marks.

[drive:][path] filename

Specifies the location and name of the file in which to search for the specified string.