Windows grep command line

Is there a command prompt grep equivalent for Windows 7? That is, I want to filter out the results of a command:Bash use:ls | grep rootWhat would it be from a Windows command prompt? jww12.6k49 gold badges133 silver badges211 bronze badges asked Jun 22, 2011 at 20:51 chrisl-921fb74dchrisl-921fb74d4,0204 gold badges25 silver badges27 bronze badges 1 Findstr sounds like what you want. I use it all the time as an approximate grep-equivalent on the Windows platform.Another example with pipes:C:\> dir /B | findstr /R /C:"[mp]" answered Jun 22, 2011 at 21:00 Greg JacksonGreg Jackson3,5552 gold badges18 silver badges15 bronze badges 10 There are several possibilities:Use a port of a Unix grep command. There are several choices. Oft-mentioned are GNUWin32, cygwin, and unxutils. Less well known, but in some ways better, are the tools in the (now discontinued) SFUA utility toolkit, which run in the Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications that comes right there in the box with Windows 7 Ultimate edition and Windows Server 2008 R2. (For Windows XP, one can download and install Services for UNIX version 3.5.) This toolkit has a large number of command-line TUI tools, from mv and du, through the Korn and C shells, to perl and awk. It comes in both x86-64 and IA64 flavours as well as x86-32. The programs run in Windows' native proper POSIX environment, rather than with emulator DLLs (such as cygwin1.dll) layering things over Win32. And yes, the toolkit has grep, as well as some 300 others.Use one of the many native Win32 grep commands that people have written and published. Tim Charron has a native Win32 version of a modified GNU grep, for example. There are also PowerGREP, Bare Grep, grepWin, AstroGrep, and dnGrep, although these are all GUI programs not TUI programs.Use the supplied find and findstr. The syntax

You can quickly retrieve any Macs serial number via the command line by using the ioreg or system_profiler command and grep for the serial string. Getting the serial number from the command line like this can be helpful for troubleshooting, Single User Mode, remote management with SSH, or for many other reasons, though most users should opt to find the Macs serial number this way from the  Apple menu or from System Profiler, the Terminal app method is valid for advanced users and for many other reasons.How to Get the Serial Number of a Mac from Command Line in Mac OS XTo try this yourself and get the serial number on any Mac OS machine, enter the appropriate command string below at the Terminal, depending on the version of Mac OS X in use on the Mac. Be sure the command is on a single line, as usual with command line syntax. How to Get Mac Serial Number by Command Line in Modern MacOSOn modern versions of MacOS like Mojave, High Sierra, and Sierra, or newer, the following command syntax will retrieve the serial number from the Mac:ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumberThe resulting output with serial number will look like the following:"IOPlatformSerialNumber" = "C241BABDLLRP8"How to Get Serial Number by Command Line in Prior Mac OS XOn prior versions of Mac OS X like El Capitan, Yosemite, and Mavericks, the following string will retrieve the Macs serial number:system_profiler |grep "Serial Number (system)"The results for this string will look something like the following:$ system_profiler |grep "Serial Number (system)" Serial Number (system): B041FAFDLLJA8The serial number will always appear as an alphanumeric string alongside “Serial Number (system)”, if you simply grep for “serial” you’ll find a huge number of returns that are unrelated to the systems actual serial number, thus we don’t do that. Querying Mac Serial Number by Command Line in Older Mac OS X ReleasesFor querying the systems serial number in even older versions of Mac OS X, including Snow Leopard, Mt Lion, Lion, and before, use the following system_profiler and grep string:system_profiler |grep "r (system)"The command results will look something like this:$ system_profiler |grep "r (system)"Serial Number (system): C24E1322XXXXAgain, the alphanumeric string after “Serial Number (system)” is the serial number.Just as the new versions, if you just grep for “Serial Number” you’ll be presented with serial numbers to other hardware included in the Mac, which is why the “r (system)”

Grep rootCmd use> dir /b | findstr rootwhere /b stands for bare list of directories and files answered May 2, 2016 at 5:47 5 You can try installing Chocolatey on Windows, and through that, install the Gow tool. This will provide you with grep on Windows.Gow stand for GNU on Windows. It provides Unix command line utilities on Windows. answered Sep 11, 2014 at 5:33 AturAtur5655 silver badges11 bronze badges 4 I wrote a Windows alternative to grep using Hybrid Batch/JScript code. I wrote this because getting the escape characters right in the GNU Win32 grep port was a real pain. This version works much more like how you would want the GNU version to work in Windows:@set @junk=1 /*@cscript //nologo //E:jscript %~f0 %*@goto :eof */var args=WScript.Arguments, argCnt=args.Length, stdin=WScript.StdIn, stdout=WScript.StdOut;var replaceSingleQuotes=false, printMatchesOnly=false, matchString, flagString, regex, argDx=0;if(argCnt==0) { throw new Error("You must provide search criteria.");}flagString=""if(argCnt>1) { for(var bLoop=true; bLoop&&argDxYou can always find the latest version on my Gist page for this. phuclv29.6k15 gold badges132 silver badges256 bronze badges answered Mar 3, 2015 at 11:06 krowekrowe5,6111 gold badge25 silver badges31 bronze badges replacer program has been prepared so that many functions can be carried out by usingcommand line parameters. Command line usage is seen below:MultiReplacer [Multi Replacer File] | [Search files] | [Search folders][-Subs] [-NoSubs] [-IncPtr=pattern] [-ExcPtr=patterns] [-DestDir=destination][-DMAnyTime][-DMWithinanhour] [-DMToday] [-DMYesterday] [-DMThisweek] [-DMThismonth][-DMThisYear][-CDMAfter=date] [-CDMBefore=date] [-MinFileSize=bytes count][-MaxFileSize=bytes count][-Search=text] [-Case] [-NoCase] [-Regex] [-NoRegex] [-SubMatchText=text][-ReplaceText=text][-StartSearch] [-StartReplace] [-AutoClose] [-StopAfterMatchThisFile] [-StopAfterMatchAll][-ExtractedWordsFile=filename] [-ExtractedLinesFile=filename] [-ReportFile=filename] answered Feb 8, 2014 at 22:15 You can still use your familiar grep and other Linux commands by downloading this tool UnxUtils and add it location to your PATH environment variable answered Sep 3, 2014 at 2:48 thucnguyenthucnguyen1,1091 gold badge7 silver badges4 bronze badges 1 I would suggest using busybox-w32, since it is only about 500 KB in size and actively maintained.So that in your