I am using findstr to search an string in some file and redirecting the search result to another txt file but need to omit the searched file name added in results.
My batch file has :- findstr /s "TEST" subfolder/test.dat > output.txt
and the result of output.txt with the filename test.dat(which I need to remove):-
subfolder/test.dat:2014-04-15;TEST TECHNOLOGY LTD
Same kind of question has been asked here. But in my case I am not using any wildcards. Please help.
Parse the output of recursive dir:
>output.txt (
for /f "eol=* delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b "subfolder\test.dat"') do (
findstr /c:"TEST" "%%a"
)
)
eol=* is used to correctly parse folders with ; which is treated as comment by for /f
delims= (empty) means that linebreak is used to delimit the output, so the line is taken entirely
/c: is used to indicate literal search string so that it may contain spaces
Alternatively you can strip the file names from the recursive findstr's output:
>output.txt (
for /f "delims=: tokens=1*" %%a in (
'findstr /s /c:"TEST" "subfolder\test.dat"'
) do echo.%%b
)
In case you want to specify a drive qualifier use tokens=2*.
One more way is to pipe with TYPE
If there's only one file:
type "subfolder/test.dat" |Findstr "TEST" > output.txt
The S switch is for searching in subfolders so if the files are more:
for /r "subfolder" %%a in (*.dat) do type %%~fa|Findstr "TEST" >> output.txt
Related
Can someone have a look at this mess please?
I have in the file test.txt a line with the search string Coupon (%), but FINDSTR searches just for Coupon. I have tried another line with search string Coupon frequency in file test.txt which results in searching also just for Coupon.
This is the command line in the batch file:
for /f %%f in ('dir /s /b C:\Users\me\Desktop\script\links\') do for /f %%t in ('type C:\Users\me\Desktop\script\test.txt') do for /f "delims=:" %%a in ('findstr /n /c:"%%t" %%f') do C:\Users\me\Desktop\script\links2.exe %%f %%a && echo %%t
How can I make this command line to use the entire line in file test.txt as entire search string as I would expect with the FINDSTR /c: switch please?
It works fine if I use the option /g: on searching the file test.txt. But I need the search results output to be in the order in which I specified the search strings in the file test.txt and /g: outputs all lines with any of the searched strings in line order of the searched file which is why I'm using TYPE.
You need
... for /f "delims=" %%t in ...
Stands out. Your code will select the first token by default, using the default delimiters (Space or Tab) hence "Coupon". Using "delims=" selects the entire line for %%t
Currently my code is: findstr Starfy ./List.txt > result.txt
My result.txt is
3841 - Legendary Starfy, The (USA).zip
x166 - Legendary Starfy, The (USA) (Demo) (Kiosk).zip
However, I want result 1 and result 2 to have their own seperate files, so it would look like:
result1.txt > 3841 - Legendary Starfy, The (USA).zip
result2.txt > x166 - Legendary Starfy, The (USA) (Demo) (Kiosk).zip
I'm unsure how to make this work, and would love if someone is able to help point me in the right direction.
This works:
#echo off
for /F "tokens=1* delims=:" %%a in ('findstr "Starfy" .\List.txt ^| findstr /N "^"') do >result%%a.txt echo %%b
Just pass your original results into another instance of findstr /N command that add line numbers. After that, separate the number and the line in a for /F command and output each line to its corresponding numbered file...
for /f "tokens=1,* delims=:" %%S in ('findstr /i "echo" "%~f0"^|findstr /n /i "echo" ') do ECHO %%T>"U:\moreresults\result%%S.txt"
The command quoted in parentheses finds a string (in this case, echo) ignoring case (/i) within the file "%~f0" (this batch file, which contains a heap of standard code I use for testing). This is passed to another instance of findstr, this time looking for the same string, but numbering the lines (as serialnumber:linetext).
The resultant text is tokenised using : as a separator, so %%S receives the serialnumber and %%T receives the rest of the line (token *). Then simply build the result filename using %%S and write the text part of the line to it.
The caret is used to escape the pipe so that cmd knows that the pipe is part of the command-to-be-executed, not of the for command.
Assuming that you do not already have files in the location you're outputting your results, which could alalready be named using that intended naming scheme, then something like this may suit you:
#Echo Off
SetLocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion
Set "i=0"
For /F Delims^=^ EOL^= %%G In (
'%SystemRoot%\System32\find.exe /I "Starfy" 0^<".\List.txt" 2^>NUL'
) Do (
Set /A i += 1
1>"Result!i!.txt" Echo %%G
)
Please note that I used find.exe instead of findstr.exe simply because your example used a simple string containing a series of alphabetic only characters. Feel free to change it to '%SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /LIC:"Starfy" ".\List.txt" 2^>NUL', or similar, should you require a more specialized matching mechanism.
I have several .csv files in one folder. They are saved automatically but with spaces and execution date and time (in seconds) with amount of containing lines.
So far I was not able to run my powershell script with files containing spaces. So I tried to rename filenames using batch. so far nothing is working fine. Either in cmd-line or with a batch file.
Trying to loop in folder to find .csv is working but defining a string and then substring parts of the file not.
for %%i in ('dir *.csv /b /s') do set string = %%~ni
set substr=!string:~20,25!
echo !substr!
I tried first to use % instead of ! but didn't worked as well. Tried to use pipes for the loop as well, didn't worked.
So far my output is just
!string:~20,25!
My output has to be just the "real" filename of the report without anything else before or after it.
For example, do with that path and filename
C:\Users\Username\CSV_Files\Reportoutput Report_2017 2018-01-09T07_10_33.1924R.csv
this
C:\Users\Username\CSV_Files\Report_2017.csv
When I'm able to extract just the filename without any spaces or leading chars like "Reportoutput" (which is always the same) or starting time of report or containing lines in the report I could use that string and combine it with the path where files are saved.
Any ideas? Why is my "substring" not working at all? Do I miss some action? Some code?
I'm using windows.
Based on the file name structure you've presented and looping in one folder, (the current directory), as stated and used in your example code:
#Echo Off
For %%A In ("* * *.csv"
) Do For /F "Tokens=2" %%B In ("%%~nA") Do Ren "%%~A" "%%B%%~xA"
If you wanted to check inside subfolders of the currect directory then change it to this:
#Echo Off
For /R %%A In ("* * *.csv"
) Do For /F "Tokens=2" %%B In ("%%~nA") Do Ren "%%~A" "%%B%%~xA"
…and if you want to specify the base directory name then you can do so like the following two examples which use %UserProfile% for demonstration purposes, (change as appropriate).
#Echo Off
For /R "%UserProfile%" %%A In ("* * *.csv"
) Do For /F "Tokens=2" %%B In ("%%~nA") Do Ren "%%~A" "%%B%%~xA"
and:
#Echo Off
CD /D "%UserProfile%" 2>Nul||Exit /B
For /R %%A In ("* * *.csv"
) Do For /F "Tokens=2" %%B In ("%%~nA") Do Ren "%%~A" "%%B%%~xA"
Instead of splitting the names using character numbers, this simply takes the second token of the file name string delimited by spaces and adds the original file extension to it in a rename command.
I want to remove the part of a filename after the third "_" from thousand of files. The structure after the third "_" varies and contains "_" in some cases. The length of the first part varies so I can't just remove the first 15 characters. The result should be unique.
The filenames look like this:
00_TEXT_=Text00._AA1234L_AA1_1.pdf
00_TEX_=Text00._AA1234L_AA1_2.pdf
00_TEXT_=TextText00._DD2023A.pdf
00_TEXT_=Text00._AA2345L_BB1_1.pdf
00_TEXT_=Text00._AA2345L_BB1_2.pdf
The result should look like this:
AA1234L_AA1_1.pdf
AA1234L_AA1_2.pdf
DD2023A.pdf
AA2345L_BB1_1.pdf
AA2345L_BB1_2.pdf
Any idea why this is not working:
#echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set deletestring=*_*_*_
for /f "delims==" %%F in ('dir /b ^| find "%deletestring%"') do (
set oldfilename=%%F
set newfilename=!oldfilename:%deletestring%=!
Ren "!oldfilename!" "!newfilename!"
)
I was able to get it working with this:
#echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set deletestring=*_*_*_*
for /f "tokens=1,2,3,* delims=_" %%F in ('dir /b "%deletestring%"') do (
Ren "%%F_%%G_%%H_%%I" "%%I"
)
endlocal
Note that enabledelayedexpansion isn't really needed in the above.
Alternately, you could do this as a single line (no batch file needed):
for /f "tokens=1,2,3,* delims=_" %F in ('dir /b "*_*_*_*"') do Ren "%F_%G_%H_%I" "%I"
The idea is to simply split the matching filenames apart by underscores and then reconstruct the names during the rename process (%%F_%%G_%%H_%%I gives the original file name when going through the loop). Then rename the file to everything after the 3rd underscore, which is the %%I value.
Your FINDSTR search is wrong - a string of any characters (wildcard) is .*, not *.
Variable find/replace does not support wildcards, except for the !var:*search=! syntax that replaces everthing up until the first occurrence of "search".
There is no need for FINDSTR, all you need is DIR with normal wildcard masking.
You can use FOR /F to parse the name into tokens. I use two loops - the first to get the entire name, and the second to parse out the portion after the 3rd _.
The following should work:
#echo off
for /f "eol=: delims=" %%A in (
'dir /b /a-d *_*_*_*'
) do for /f "tokens=3* delims=_" %%B in ("%%A") do ren "%%A" "%%C"
Or you could use my jren.bat utility that renames files using regular expression replacement. It is a hybrid JScript/batch script that runs natively on any Windows machine from XP onward.
jren "^(.*?_){3}" ""
Use CALL JREN if you put the command within another batch script.
I would like all the csv files in a directory which filename does not contain word "summary". Inside the command prompt I can type the following command
dir /b my_dir\*.csv | find /V "summary"
When I try to transfer the above command into a batch file I run into a problem in that the pipe command is not supported in the for loop. That is I cannot do the following
FOR /f %%A in ('dir /b my_dir\*.csv | find /V "summary"') do (
rem want to do something here
)
Can somebody shed some light to me on how to solve the problem above?
Thanks in advance!
You need to escape the | character to prevent its being interpreted at the time of parsing the loop command. Use ^ to escape it:
FOR /f "delims=" %%A in ('dir /b "my_dir\*.csv" ^| find /V "summary"') do (
rem do what you want with %%A here
)
Once escaped, the | becomes part of the '-delimited string. It is only interpreted as a special symbol when that string is parsed separately from the loop, as a "sub-command", according to the syntax. And that is done after parsing the loop.
If you get the problem that Gilbeg got "find: /V': No such file or directory" then it's most likely you have cygwin, or similar, in your path and the batch file's not using the Windows find command. If you modify your script to use the absolute path of the Windows find then the error will go away:
FOR /f "delims=" %%A in ('dir /b "my_dir\*.csv" ^| %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\find.exe /V "summary"') do (
rem want to do something here with %%A
)
You can also just embed a double-quoted string inside the single-quotes string, as in:
FOR /f "delims=" %%A in ('"dir /b my_dir\*.csv | find /I /V "summary""') do #(
ECHO Do something with "%%A"
)
have a look at the Windows PowerShell. Not that I have ever used it myself, mind.