Command Line string search

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"Hal" <Hal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello to all,
>
> I need help with the following please.
>
> [OS = XP Pro]
>
> I want to print to file, a list of files in a specific directory that
> contain a certain string. This listing must also include the date of said
> file.
>
> I'm able to create the list of files with FINDSTR /M
> [[drive:][path]filename]. This returns all the fiile names which meet the
> criteria but FINDSTR does not return the date of the file, which I also
need.
>
> I thought I may be able to use the FOR and or DIR commands in conjunction
> with FINDSTR and pipe this to a text file. I've been reading the help file
on
> FOR but it is not clear to me how to use the results from FINDSTR as an
input
> variable.
>
> Any help in setting me on the correct path to solving this is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hal
> Michigan, USA

How about this:

dir /ad "c:\SomeFolder\Some Subfolder" | find /i "Some String" >
c:\FileList.txt

You don't really need the FOR command in this case but here is
how you could use it in a batch file:

Line1 @echo off
Line2 SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
Line3
Line4 set count=0
Line5 for /F "tokens=*" %%* in ('dir /ad "c:\SomeFolder\SomeSubfolder" ^|
find /i "SomeString"') do (
Line6 set Line=%%*
Line7 set count=!count! + 1
Line8 echo Line !count!=!Line!
Line9 )
Line10 EndLocal