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Uses the specified text as a literal search string.
/g:<file>
Gets search strings from the specified file.
/d:<dirlist>
Searches the specified list of directories. Each directory must be separated with a semicolon (;), for example dir1;dir2;dir3.
/a:<colorattribute>
Specifies color attributes with two hexadecimal digits. Type color /? for additional information.
<strings>
Specifies the text to search for in filename. Required.
[\<drive>:][<path>]<filename>[...]
Specifies the location and file or files to search. At least one file name is required.
/?
Displays Help at the command prompt.
<file>
<string>
<file>
<dirlist>
dir1;dir2;dir3
<colorattribute>
color /?
<strings>
[\<drive>:][<path>]<filename>[...]
Remarks
All findstr command-line options must precede strings and filename in the command string.
Regular expressions use both literal characters and meta-characters to find patterns of text, rather than exact strings of characters.
A literal character is a character that doesn't have a special meaning in the regular-expression syntax; instead, it matches an occurrence of that character. For example, letters and numbers are literal characters.
A meta-character is a symbol with special meaning (an operator or delimiter) in the regular-expression syntax.
The accepted meta-characters are:
Meta-character
Value
.
Wildcard - Any character
*
Repeat - Zero or more occurrences of the previous character or class.
^
Beginning line position - Beginning of the line.
$
Ending line position - End of the line.
[class]
Character class - Any one character in a set.
[^class]
Inverse class - Any one character not in a set.
[x-y]
Range - Any characters within the specified range.
\x
Escape - Literal use of a meta-character.
\<string
Beginning word position - Beginning of the word.
string\>
Ending word position - End of the word.
.
*
^
$
[class]
[^class]
[x-y]
\x
\<string
string\>
The special characters in regular expression syntax have the most power when you use them together. For example, use the combination of the wildcard character (.) and repeat (*) character to match any string of characters: .*
.
*
.*