Maybe I need helpwith the find utility.

[Geek-9pm]

This is about the DOS find utility.

Maybe this could be a DOS script. I am not sure. Here is what I want.
I want to look in in all the TXT files I ever made to see what email address I have used at any time.

I have found already that I can not use the @ in search. I don't know why. Anyway, here is how I thin it might be done.

Let me say that I use a site called "FarDog.us" as a mail service. some my email address might be "[email protected]", but I  can not use the @ symbol. So I search on "fardog.us" and select ignore case. In Windows that gives my lots of files.So I copy them all to a USB stick.

{Mot my real e-mail. Just an example herein.}

So far, so good. Now I have a lot of TXT files on my K: drive, my USB thing.

Here is my question. How do I use he find utility to show me just show the fines that have the name of the website?

[Salmon Trout]

I have found already that I can not use the @ in search. I don't know why.

Are you sure?

1. test.txt

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a.line.of.text
[email protected]
some.more.txt
[email protected]
[email protected]

2. tryme.bat

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@echo off
for %%a in (*.txt) do (
    type "%%a" | find "@fardog.us"
    )
3. Output of tryme.bat

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[email protected]
[email protected]

[Salmon Trout]

This is about the DOS find utility.

I have found already that I can not use the @ in search. I don't know why. Anyway, here is how I thin it might be done.

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C:\Batch\Test\>find "@" *.txt

---------- TEST.TXT
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

C:\Batch\Test>find "@fardog.us" *.txt

---------- TEST.TXT
[email protected]
[email protected]

use a double FIND to get rid of the file names:

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C:\Batch\Test>find "@fardog.us" *.txt | find "@fardog.us"
[email protected]
[email protected]