Windows operating system allows users to do lot of things from command line. We can search for files from command prompt itself.
dir /s /b
/s – search in subfolders
/b – prints bare file name,skips file attributes information.
Examples:
Search for a file with the name commandline.txt in d drive.
dir d: commandline.txt /s /b
Search for all the files starting with the string command and are in current directory including any subfolders.
dir command* /s /b
Search for all files having the string command somewhere in the file name.
dir *command* /s /b
Search for all jpg/jpeg files in c drive.
dir *.jpg *.jpeg /s /b
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