Re: find files which contains certain string

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"Al Dunbar" <AlanDrub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Richard Mueller [MVP]" <rlmueller-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Jurgen Heijnen wrote:

Can someone help me creating a script which search for files which
contains
a certain string in the filename. the files are placed in 1 directory
and
there names differ,

I would hope that their names would differ - if not then they'd all be the
same file.

an example: 2383737.2006.01.csv of 4443335.2007.04.csv.
Now I need to search the directory for the filename which contains the
string
"2007.04", which stands for "april 2007".
Can somebody help or get me started

I have an example VBScript program that does this linked here:

http://www.rlmueller.net/FindFiles.htm

Or, at a command prompt:

dir {folder}\*.2007.04.csv

Or if you want to have a script do something with the file once found,
something like this in a batch script:

pushd {folder}
(set _ym=Enter year and month in yyyy.mm format: )
for %%F in (*.%_ym%.csv) do notepad %%F


/Al


Reading Al's answer I just realized I mis-understood the question. The
script I linked searches for files that have a specified string in the file
contents, not in the name of the file. The "dir" command seems the best
solution.

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Richard Mueller
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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