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Shell command for searching text files
findstr is a shell command that searches for text in files and prints matching lines to standard output. The command provides similar functionality as find, but findstr supports some regular expression operators. However, findstr does not support UTF-16 whereas find does. findstr cannot search for null bytes commonly found in Unicode computer files. Wikipedia →
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