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Vista's FIND Command

Searches for a text string in a file or files.

FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] [/OFF[LINE]] “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.
/OFF[LINE]
Do not skip files with offline attribute set.
“string”
Specifies the text string to find.
[drive:][path]filename
Specifies a file or files to search.

If a path is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt or piped from another command.

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