MS-DOS, How Do I Find This File...?

Question

Okay, well I was working on MS-DOS and, well, to put it simply I lost my file. It's hidden somewhere in one of my directories but I have NO idea where.

I do however know the contents of it... Is there a command that I can use to find this file? If there is, can someone please copy it down on here.

Any help would appreciated.

Answer 1

You should be able to use the "find" command. See http://www.computerhope.com/findhlp.htm for a list of possible options and examples.

Answer 2

I grew up on a diet of MS-DOS. But it's clumsy when it comes to things like locating files. Find command is best, as poster one said.

FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]

/V --Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.

/C --Displays only the count of lines containing the string.

/N --Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.

/I --Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.

"string" Specifies the text string to find.

[drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files to search.

Answer 3

Take a look at this:

http://www.computerhope.com/findstr.htm

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Geesh I'm brain dead today. Try something like this:

dir c:\ /s /b | find "Google"