RW>mark lewis wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

RW> RW> so, the question is who likes what for a drop-in command line
RW> RW> replacement for the ms dos find. Iirc there were a couple in my old
RW> RW> bfds archives back in the day.

RW>ml> depending on what you are using it for, i use grep from the *nix
RW>ml> world...

RW>Had a copy of that in my files areas on the old bbs stuff that burned.  A do
RW>version even .

RW>Mainly to grab text from one file and import it into another is my main
RW>purpose. Find works great for counting occurrences of a string, or deleting
RW>lines containig it, but getting it reliable for grabbing actual text is a pi
RW>thanks to the line numbers. wIll have to see about finding a dos version of
RW>grep (again) as we all know what happened to my old bbs stuff >

Richard,

I just used FIND/? from a XP CMD prompt and it mentions that it gives
the Line Numbers only if you use a /N option with the FIND command.

It has been ages since I have used FIND but my memory didn't remember
seeing Line Numbers with the output on the screen.

Try just using FIND "string" FILENAME and see if that works for you.


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