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SEARCH Michael J. Mefford
Purpose: Searches all or specified directories on a disk for either designated
filenames or the first occurrence of character strings within files.
Format: SEARCH [filespec] [string][/P][/C][/B]
Remarks: SEARCH defaults to a diskwide search of all subdirectories on the
current disk. You can specify a different drive and/or a pathname as
part of the optional filespec parameter. Filename searches support
the DOS * and ? wildcards. Character strings within files are
identified by putting them in quotation marks. (The strings may
themselves include a pair of quotation marks.) Pressing either
Ctrl-Break or Ctrl-C terminates SEARCH manually.
To redirect the output of the SEARCH command to a printer, add /P to
the command line, as shown in the first example below. Adding a
similar /C switch will make the search for a character string
case-sensitive.
When searching for a character string, SEARCH normally ignores .COM
and .EXE files. While this saves time, there may be occasions when
you want to find copyright notices, error messages, et al. in an
executable file. To include binary files in the search, add the /B
parameter on the command line.
Example: To print out a list all the .COM files in the \PROG subdirectory of
your current drive, you would enter
SEARCH \PROG\*.COM/P
Example: To find which of the file(s) in your \LETTERS subdirectory contained
the salutation, Dear Miss Jones, enter
SEARCH \LETTERS "Dear Miss Jones"
Notes: SEARCH returns a line number, based on the number of previous
carriage returns in the file, when it finds a string. It reports
only the first occurrence of the string in each file.