tldr/pages/windows/findstr.md

findstr

Find specified text within one or more files.

• Find space-separated string(s) in all files:

findstr "{{query}}" *

• Find space-separated string(s) in all files recur[s]ively:

findstr /s "{{query}}" *

• Find strings using a case-insensitive search:

findstr /i "{{query}}" *"

• Find strings in all files using regular expressions:

findstr /r "{{expression}}" *

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

findstr /c:"{{query}}" *.txt

• Find only lines that match the query eactly:

findstr /x "{{query}}" *

• Display the line number before each matching line:

findstr /n "{{query}}" *

• Display only the filenames that contain a match:

findstr /m "{{query}}" *