How to search a phrase in all text files of a folder for lines having the words foo and bar
and print the text between these words, on the Windows command line - Noob vs. ProAI Noob Answer:
"use the command line tool "for" and "findstr":
for /r %i in (*.txt) do @for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=:" %a in ('findstr /r "foo.*bar" %i ^| findstr /b ":"') do
@echo %i:%c
... who shall remember this?? and it just produces:
syntax error at unexpected word '%i' !
Alternatively, you can use the "powershell" command, the basic syntax is:
Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\path\to\folder" -Filter *.txt -Recurse -Force | Select-String -Pattern "foo.*bar" -Context 0,1 | % { $_.Context.PostContext[0] }
... produces no output. Should that be a starting point for hour-long trial and error?
Great solution! ... if you have an alien neighbour who can translate it for humans.
But if he can't, you're rather lost, and need the
Pro answer:
Forget the above junk, download the free open source SFK for any system and type in one line:
sfk xfind -pure mydir "/foo*bar/[part2]\n/"
Done. Example output:
:file mydir\log1.txt
and the
:file mydir\log2.txt
with some
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