findstr Command Examples

Find specified text within one or more files. More information: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/findstr.

• Find one or more strings in all files:

findstr "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *

• Find one or more strings in a piped command's output:

{{dir}} | findstr "{{string1 string2 ...}}"

• Find one or more strings in all files recur[s]ively:

findstr /s "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *

• Find strings using a case-insensitive search:

findstr /i "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *"

• Find strings in all files using regular expressions:

findstr /r "{{expression}}" *

• Find a literal string (containing spaces) in all text files:

findstr /c:"{{string1 string2 ...}}" *.txt

• Display the line number before each matching line:

findstr /n "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *

• Display only the filenames that contain a match:

findstr /m "{{string1 string2 ...}}" *