Windows recursive grep command-line

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I need to do a recursive grep in Windows, something like this in Unix/Linux:

grep -i 'string' `find . -print`

or the more-preferred method:

find . -print | xargs grep -i 'string'

I'm stuck with just cmd.exe, so I only have Windows built-in commands. I can't install Cygwin, or any 3rd party tools like UnxUtils on this server unfortunately. I'm not even sure I can install PowerShell. Any suggestions using only cmd.exe built-ins (Windows 2003 Server)?

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Recursive search for import word inside src folder    gt  findstr  s import   src

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Select-String worked best for me  All the other options listed here  such as findstr  didn t work with large files   Here s an example   select-string -pattern   lt pattern gt   -path   lt path gt     note  This requires Powershell

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for  f  G in   dir   cpp   h  s b   do    find  i  what you search     G    gt  gt  out file txt

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I just searched a text with following command which listed me all the file names containing my specified  search text    C  Users ak47 Desktop trunk gt findstr  S  I  M  C  search text

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If you have Perl installed  you could use ack  available at http   beyondgrep com

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findstr  spin  c  string   files    The parameters have the following meanings    s   recursive p   skip non-printable characters i   case insensitive n   print line numbers   And the string to search for is the bit you put in quotes after  c

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I recommend a really great tool    native unix utils     http   unxutils sourceforge net  http   en wikipedia org wiki UnxUtils   Just unpack them and put that folder into your PATH environment variable and voila      Works like a charm  and there are much more then just grep

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findstr can do recursive searches   S  and supports some variant of regex syntax   R     C   gt findstr    Searches for strings in files   FINDSTR   B    E    L    R    S    I    X    V    N    M    O    P    F file            C string    G file    D dir list    A color attributes    OFF LINE           strings   drive   path filename            B         Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line     E         Matches pattern if at the end of a line     L         Uses search strings literally     R         Uses search strings as regular expressions     S         Searches for matching files in the current directory and all              subdirectories     I         Specifies that the search is not to be case-sensitive     X         Prints lines that match exactly     V         Prints only lines that do not contain a match     N         Prints the line number before each line that matches     M         Prints only the filename if a file contains a match     O         Prints character offset before each matching line     P         Skip files with non-printable characters     OFF LINE  Do not skip files with offline attribute set     A attr    Specifies color attribute with two hex digits  See  color        F file    Reads file list from the specified file   stands for console      C string  Uses specified string as a literal search string     G file    Gets search strings from the specified file   stands for console      D dir     Search a semicolon delimited list of directories   strings    Text to be searched for     drive   path filename              Specifies a file or files to search   Use spaces to separate multiple search strings unless the argument is prefixed with  C   For example   FINDSTR  hello there  x y  searches for  hello  or  there  in file x y    FINDSTR  C  hello there  x y  searches for  hello there  in file x y   Regular expression quick reference             Wildcard  any character            Repeat  zero or more occurrences of previous character or class            Line position  beginning of line            Line position  end of line    class   Character class  any one character in set     class  Inverse class  any one character not in set    x-y     Range  any characters within the specified range    x       Escape  literal use of metacharacter x     lt xyz    Word position  beginning of word   xyz  gt     Word position  end of word  For full information on FINDSTR regular expressions refer to the online Command Reference

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