Windows search output problems

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I am trying to search for files and folders on my computer meeting a specification and send the output to a text file for further processing. Under Windows XP CMD feature I can use redirection characters, but can't do a search. The Windows Search command doesn't include a results save function and I can't do a cut and paste on the entire results (cut and paste works on the files and folders, but not on the generated results text). I have also tried to find the temporary file where search results are saved while being displayed on the screen, but no luck. Anyone have any ideas of how to do this or of another search program I can install that will?

Joined: Jun 27, 2005 Posts: 2062

Set the serach "area" to list view and tack a screen shot.

The way to out put a file list of a certin criteri using a a console and out put file is as follows:

1. Execute a command similare to this (must execute this while the working directory is C:, for this to work there must be a disk in A Smile

xcopy * A: /E /L /Y > C:\filelist.txt This command will output a file list to the file filelist.txt

2. Use findstr to find line in the text file which meet your critea, the command usage should be some thing like this: findstr "perl" C:\filelist.txt > filelist2.txt this will output any line in the text file filelist.txt to the file filelist2.txt, since i have active pearl installed it finds quite a few result. The main problem with this method of looking for files is that it looks at directory names aswell, but so dose windows file searching.