Practice find, findstr, where and sort

Practice searching in a safe Windows Command Prompt: find words in a file with find, search many files with findstr /s /i, locate programs with where, and sort lines.

COMMAND LINE CODEX// a wizard's guide to the Windows command line

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Command Line Codex practice shell [Version 1.0]

A safe sandbox: every file here is pretend, so experiment freely.

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C:\Users\Apprentice>

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From the Codex

The commands in this chapter

findSearch for a literal text string in a file.findstrSearch for text using more advanced patterns than find.whereLocate the program that a command name runs.sortSort the lines of a text file or input.