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Windows command to recursively search for a string in a directory and output results to txt file (s = recursive, i = case insensitive, n = line number detail)
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findstr.bat
findstr /sin “searchstring” *.* > output.txt
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septer012 commented Oct 5, 2023 •
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Thanks for this. This is the second result on google when I search "findstr recursive". I suggest you make an edit for those of us living in corporate world under the microsoft onedrive cloud where files are pulled from the computer to the cloud. Adding /OFFLINE forces the files in the directory to be downloaded locally before the search is done.

FINDSTR: Files with offline attribute were skipped.
Use /OFFLINE for not skipping such files.

findstr /OFFLINE /sin “searchstring” *.* > output.txt

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