Windows Command Line (CMD)

Question

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?

Answer 1

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