FINDSTR question

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From: Mike (Mike_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:37:02 -0700

Hello,

I am looking for a command I can run from my W2K Pro or XP workstations that
will allow me to essentially grep for a string on a line, output that line in
it's entirety to the console/file, and hopefully also prefixing the filename
or something - so I can know in what files the output refers to & found the
data.

Looked so far in vain for a good grep command or GUI that will do this, but
came across FINDSTR. It seems to have most of what I need, but when I use
the /x switch I get no output.

Here is what I'm doing:
findstr /x ".*Text I'm Searching For.*" *.log

(I'm in the current directory with all the .log files I'm searching for).

Anyone a pro at this command?

Thanks,

Mike

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