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Name: sjw
Date: February 9, 2003 at 18:42:43 Pacific
OS: DOS
CPU/Ram: Pent III and 1gig ram
Comment:

I want to extract items out of txt files into a new txt files.

is their a tool out their that can do it for me




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Name: jboy
Date: February 9, 2003 at 19:18:33 Pacific
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Are you serious? Try DOS Edit (edit.com) - select, copy & paste.


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Name: Erron
Date: February 13, 2003 at 02:23:47 Pacific
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i think he means a command from a batch file or something, i hope so because that is what im looking for.


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Response Number 3
Name: jboy
Date: February 13, 2003 at 02:58:50 Pacific
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Well, hard to be sure from the post - maybe something here.

Not quite my cup of tea ; )


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Response Number 4
Name: SirMiskva
Date: February 17, 2003 at 14:46:19 Pacific
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C:>find "e" test.txt > output.txt

will get all the lines in test.txt, which have the string "e3", into the file output.txt

"e" is a string: like "test", "whatever", "bla bla", ...



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