How to use findstr like a grep

Since you’re here, you’ve probably looking for solution similar to grep in Linux.

findstr is a command-line utility in Windows that allows you to search for specific text strings within one or more files.

When running findstr, we will specify the following arguments:

• /s forces to search the current directory and all subdirectories
• /i ignores case in the search term
• /m shows only the filename for a file that matches the term. We highly need this in real production environments because of the huge amounts of text that get returned. For example, this can be thousands of lines in PowerShell scripts that contain the PassThru parameter when matching for the string pass.

Here is some example. We will serach for a word andrzej insite a PowerShell script

First with /m argument to find only the file name

findstr /m /s /i "andrzej" *.ps1

and here inside the script without /m

findstr /s /i "andrzej" *.ps1

That’s it, thank for reading
Andrzej