DOS find a string if found then run another script

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I want to find  a string in a file using DOS   For example     find  string  status txt   And when it is found  I want to run a batch file   What is the best way to do this

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C  test gt find  c  string  file   find    0  1 gt nul  amp  amp  echo  execute command here

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echo off cls MD  homedrive  TEMPBBDVD  CLS TIMEOUT  T 1  gt NUL CLS systeminfo  gt  homedrive  TEMPBBDVD info txt cls timeout  t 3  gt nul cls find  x64-based PC   homedrive  TEMPBBDVD info txt  gt nul if  errorlevel  equ 1 goto 32bitsok goto 64bitsok cls   commandlineerror cls echo error  command failed or you not are using windows OS  pause  gt nul cls exit   64bitsok cls echo done  system of 64 bits pause  gt nul cls del  q  f  homedrive  TEMPBBDVD info txt  gt nul cls timeout  t 1  gt nul cls RD  homedrive  TEMPBBDVD   gt nul cls exit   32bitsok cls echo done  system of 32 bits pause  gt nul cls del  q  f  homedrive  TEMPBBDVD info txt  gt nul cls timeout  t 1  gt nul cls RD  homedrive  TEMPBBDVD   gt nul cls exit

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It s been awhile since I ve done anything with batch files but I think that the following works   find  c  string  file if  errorlevel  equ 1 goto notfound echo found goto done  notfound echo notfound goto done  done   This is really a proof of concept  clean up as it suits your needs  The key is that find returns an errorlevel of 1 if string is not in file  We branch to notfound in this case otherwise we handle the found case

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As the answer is marked correct then it s a Windows Dos prompt script and this will work too   find  string  status txt  gt nul  amp  amp  call  my batch file bat

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We have two commands   first is  condition command   second is   result command   If we need run  result command  when  condition command  is successful  errorlevel 0    condition command  amp  amp  result command   If we need run  result command  when  condition command  is fail   condition command    result command   Therefore for run  some command  in case when we have  string  in the file  status txt    find  string  status txt 1 gt nul  amp  amp  some command   in case when we have not  string  in the file  status txt    find  string  status txt 1 gt nul    some command

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