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findstr /smic:"小龙女深情脉脉的看着杨过"

dir /s/b/a-d "笑傲江湖.txt"

Why doesn't it work? It's already in the current directory.
It seems that the findstr and dir commands are still missing a parameter, to be improved

[ Last edited by kioskboy on 2008-4-1 at 02:52 PM ]

```
@echo off
set "ph=D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Common Files\system\abc\色 酷全书"
pushd "%ph%"
findstr /smic:"小龙女深情脉脉的看着杨过" *.txt
popd
pause>nul

dir /s/b/a-d "笑傲江湖.txt"```

This is my character search "command line tool" (really embarrassed to say)

There are any command usages that are not clear, just enter in the command prompt:

cmdstr shift

Change the path to your own as needed

@echo off

set "load=G:\cmd\Batch Processing Examples\bat files"

for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('findstr /ms %1 "%load%\*.txt" ^|findstr .') do start /max /wait notepad "%%i"

goto :eof

If you are not very clear about the usage of a certain command, enter in the command prompt:
cmdstr shift

What does it mean?

### Solution:

To achieve displaying the absolute path when using `findstr` to search for the specified string in all `.txt` files, you can use the following command:

```batch
@echo off
set "ph=D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Common Files\system\abc\色 酷全书"
pushd "%ph%" & for /f "delims=" %a in ('dir /s/b/a-d *.txt') do @findstr /smic:"小龙女深情脉脉的看着杨过" "%a"
```

Explanation:
- `pushd "%ph%"` changes the current directory to the specified path.
- `for /f "delims=" %a in ('dir /s/b/a-d *.txt')` loops through all `.txt` files in the current directory and its subdirectories.
- `@findstr /smic:"小龙女深情脉脉的看着杨过" "%a"` searches for the specified string in each of the `.txt` files found, and the `%a` represents the full path of each `.txt` file, thus displaying the absolute path.

If you want to put it in a batch script (`.bat` file), the `%a` should be changed to `%%a`:

```batch
@echo off
set "ph=D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Common Files\system\abc\色 酷全书"
pushd "%ph%"
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s/b/a-d *.txt') do findstr /smic:"小龙女深情脉脉的看着杨过" "%%a"
```

Originally posted by ThinKing at 2008-4-2 02:40 AM:

What does it mean?

cmdstr is the batch file name, and shift is a command name I'm not very clear about; I'm just giving an example.

Originally posted by kioskboy at 2008-4-2 11:36 AM:


1 findstr /smic:"小龙女深情脉脉的看着杨过" *.txt
Display relative path (run in current directory)
2 dir /s/b/a-d "笑傲江湖.txt"
It would be nice if it could display the absolute path (...

Set the path yourself
@echo off
set "load=G:\cmd\Batch Example\bat files"
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('findstr /ms %1 "%load%\*.txt" ^|findstr .') do echo. Absolute path is: "%%i"
goto :eof