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Cyberkur Syiem 0 Reputation points
2023-05-25T10:23:11.8+00:00

I have a project which i have to search all the files: C\Users\Documents\Flag.txt. from this location just using the cmd command. but the files flag.txt are more than 30-40 files along with the sub-files. Among these 30 files and sub-files there is only one file with the text or flag inside, the rest are empty. How will i find the one with the text inside with just a cmd? can you suggest a command or filter to dso that?

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  1. MotoX80 32,071 Reputation points
    2023-05-25T13:14:25.5766667+00:00

    II'm not sure that I correctly understand your question, but I think that what you are asing is: The file C\Users\Documents\Flag.txt contains some text. You wish to search some folder and it's subfolders for files that contain this text.

    You can do that with findstr. 

    findstr /g:C\Users\Documents\Flag.txt /s C:\TheTopFolderThatYouWantToSearch\*

    If you would only want to search .txt files, you would do it like this. 

    findstr /g:C\Users\Documents\Flag.txt /s C:\TheTopFolderThatYouWantToSearch\*.txt

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/findstr

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