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find (Windows)

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find is a shell command that searches for text in files and prints matching lines to standard output.12

The command is available in DOS,3 Digital Research FlexOS,4 IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS,5 IBM OS/2,6 Windows,7 and ReactOS.8 On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 2 and later.9 DR DOS 6.010 and Datalight ROM-DOS11 include an implementation of the find command. The FreeDOS version was developed by Jim Hall and is licensed under the GPL.12

Notably, the same-named Unix -based command performs an entirely different function – searching the file system for matching files. This functionality is provided by the forfiles command in an environment with the command of this article. The Unix-based grep command provides a function similar to the command of this article.13

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Footnotes

  1. Paterson, Tim (2013-12-19) [1983]. “Microsoft DOS V1.1 and V2.0:/msdos/v20source/FIND.ASM”. Computer History Museum, Microsoft. Retrieved 2015-10-01. ↩

  2. Shustek, Len (2014-03-24). “Microsoft MS-DOS early source code”. Software Gems: The Computer History Museum Historical Source Code Series. Retrieved 2015-10-01. ↩

  3. Jamsa, Kris A. (1993), DOS: The Complete Reference, Osborne McGraw-Hill, p. 206, ISBN 0078819040. ↩

  4. “FlexOS User’s Guide” (PDF). www.bitsavers.org. 1986. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-14. ↩

  5. “Users guide”. archive.org. Retrieved 2020-09-14. ↩

  6. “JaTomes Help - OS/2 Commands”. Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2019-07-20. ↩

  7. “Find”. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2017-08-26. ↩

  8. “reactos/reactos”. GitHub. 3 January 2022. ↩

  9. Wolverton, Van (2003). Running MS-DOS Version 6.22 (20th Anniversary Edition), 6th Revised edition. Microsoft Press. ISBN 0-7356-1812-7. ↩

  10. DR DOS 6.0 User Guide Optimisation and Configuration Tips ↩

  11. “Datalight ROM-DOS User’s Guide” (PDF). www.datalight.com. ↩

  12. “ibiblio.org FreeDOS Package — find (FreeDOS Base)”. www.ibiblio.org. ↩

  13. “Equivalent of UNIX Grep command in Dos/Windows”. January 26, 2009. ↩