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An external DOS/Windows command that provides a "case sensitive" search for text in a file. Find is also use to locate files based on the text within the file name (see filters and pipes). Grep...
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Definition: Find
An external DOS/Windows command that provides a "case sensitive" search for text in a file. Find is also use to locate files based on the text within the file name (see filters and pipes). Grep is the Mac/Unix/Linux counterpart to Find; however, there are third-party grep utilities for Windows as well (see grep).
The following example locates all the batch files in the current folder that contain the text XCOPY:
find "xcopy" *.bat
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