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FIND command
Name: Bob Date: December 28, 2000 at 05:58:18 Pacific
Comment:
I'm looking for a file that i know the name and i use the command FIND but i don't know the parameter to find every instance of the file and from which directory i can execute the command?
Name: Caine Lim Date: December 28, 2000 at 08:15:50 Pacific
Reply:
Y not u have a try for command "attrib"?? Type 'attrib /s filename'. EXP like if i wanna find all file with extention 'bat'.. then i type 'attrib /s *.bat'. It will list our all filename with extention bat inyour whole HDD & at the same times show out the locations too.
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Response Number 2
Name: Michael Date: December 28, 2000 at 10:37:09 Pacific
Reply:
Actually dir will do the same thing.
dir /s filename.txt
will list all files with the name filename.txt in the current directory and all directories under it. It's best to CD to the root directory before hand so it will search the whole hard drive and not just the current directory.
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