Program Dream•4y ago

Does anyone know how I can search for a piece text in multiple files within multiple sub directories

Does anyone know how I can search for a piece text in multiple files within multiple sub directories.

Dumb BirdOP•9/28/22, 5:45 AM

It'd save me a ton of time lol

Sspec Yes

Dumb BirdOP•9/28/22, 5:49 AM

Would you mind throwing it together for me? I'm not great with Batch. I'm primarily a Linux user. For my current project I need to use Windows though. If you don't have the time I'll just write something simple in Python for the task

Sspec I'd have to write a code

Dumb BirdOP•9/28/22, 5:57 AM

Actually don't worry bout it. Just relised Visual Studio Code has a feature for this exact thing. Sorry for wasting your time

DDumb Bird Does anyone know how I can search for a piece text in multiple files within mult...

anic17•9/28/22, 5:03 PM

for /f "delims=" %%# in ('dir /s /b /ad "YOUR DIRECTORY"') do (
    findstr /c:"%*" "%%#\*" 2>nul
)

for /f "delims=" %%# in ('dir /s /b /ad "YOUR DIRECTORY"') do (
    findstr /c:"%*" "%%#\*" 2>nul
)

anic17•9/28/22, 5:03 PM

Call it with

<scriptname> "directory"

<scriptname> "directory"

anic17•9/28/22, 5:03 PM

Since when you use Windows?

Tturtlenator How do you make CMD take multiple inputs to continue?

<Tim>•9/28/22, 7:59 PM

are you using set /p?

<Tim>•9/28/22, 7:59 PM

just use a loop to ask for input multiple times

<Tim>•9/28/22, 7:59 PM

Loops can be done via

for

for

or with jump labels in batch

<Tim>•9/28/22, 8:03 PM

:loop
  rem do something...
goto loop

:loop
  rem do something...
goto loop

Aanic17 Since when you use Windows?

Dumb BirdOP•9/28/22, 8:15 PM

I use it when reverse engineering unity games

Tturtlenator no i meant what do you right in the loop?

<Tim>•9/29/22, 4:04 PM

well depends on what you want to do..

<Tim>•9/30/22, 7:55 PM

So a, b, enter or just a and b?

anic17•10/1/22, 9:05 AM

If it's only A and B you can do this:

choice /c:AB /n > nul 2>&1

choice /c:AB /n > nul 2>&1

anic17•10/1/22, 9:06 AM

@turtlenator

Mmrc i want a code to do this, the input must only be either m, w or s if its not an...

<Tim>•10/6/22, 12:56 PM

use

choice /c mws

choice /c mws

anic17•10/6/22, 7:23 PM

remove the 3 ifs

anic17•10/6/22, 7:23 PM

they're not needed as choice won't allow other characters

<Tim>•10/6/22, 8:44 PM

you need to check for 0 and 255 or have a default case tho, because the user can abort choice using CTRL + C

<𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏>•10/8/22, 6:30 AM

Guten Tag @mrc!

Mmrc dont really think my intended audience would do that tho 😆

<Tim>•10/8/22, 6:34 AM

Haha ^^
always assume you're dealing with the DAU (german for dümmster anzunehmender user = dumbest possible user, idk what the English term for it is if any exists) tho, so just make an exit in this case or something like that ^^