Sorry about the dummy question here.
Under Windows I would like to be able to filter one .txt file into a new one. Filtering all lines that contain a specific string.
I know this could well be a really easy one, but would really appreciate a few pointers please.
Use the findstr
command:
findstr my-string filename > new-file
findstr /?
will give you a usage message telling you how to use findstr
(including the /V
switch if you wanted to filter lines out rather than filtering them in.)
Or if you're familiar with grep
and wishing you had it on Windows, install Cygwin. :-)
Powershell has some neat string comparison features. You can pipe the output to a new file.
^^ There are some better links as to how to use Powershell - but I can't find them this minute. If you go the Powershell route there are lots of examples on the internet.
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