Just to jump in here, 4DOS, a replacement and enhancement for http://command.com, has FileFind (ffind), a grep-ish utility one switch of which allows for searching text in a file (ffind /T"nnn"). Add the /S switch and it will dive through subdirectories. It's slow on my system, but I'm running BOXER on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (a creditable XyWrite performer without full U2 capabilities). 4DOS is free; you can find a link to it and many other very interesting stuff at http://WWW.4DOS.INFO.On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Carl Distefano mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Reply to note from Bill Troop mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx Wed, 12 Mar 2014
11:09:57 +0000
Bill:
> findstr is still part of Win 8.1. I wonder if it now has more
> intelligence than previously? For example, it seems able to
> read pdfs.
It reads PDFs fine on my prehistoric WinXP SP3 system, a Dell
Dimension 8400 that I bought in September of 2004. Seems like
yesterday.
(We, here, dwell in prehistory, do we not?)
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Carl Distefano
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