FINDSTR in Command Prompt

Question

I am trying to generate a file with all of the rows from an input file containing a certain string using the FINDSTR commanand in cmd.exe. My command below does not produce any results, whereas the FIND command (also below) shows that there are 182,688 rows containing the string I'm looking for...

FIND command:

FIND /c "searchstring" c:\Users\karl\Desktop\Report.csv

gives the following:

---------- C:\USERS\KARL\DESKTOP\REPORT.CSV: 182688

FINDSTR command:

findstr /i /c:"searchstring" c:\Users\karl\Desktop\Report.csv > results.out

gives me a blank file called results.out.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Try this one. the /n gives a line number:

findstr /i /n "\<searchstring\>" c:\Users\karl\Desktop\Report.csv

Answer 2

Find some string inside all text files in current directory example:

cls & for %i in (*.txt) do find /i "search text" < "%i" && (echo : %i & echo -)

What you are missing is the redirector; if your last search file fails search, your code deletes all content of the result file. Replace with append redirector, eg, to store results of search in a file:

for %i in (*.txt) do (find /i "giff" < "%i" && (echo : %i & echo -)) >> results.txt

Tested in Win 10