FINDSTR questions

[Guest]

Hello,

I am looking for a command I can run from my W2K Pro or XP workstations that
will allow me to essentially grep for a string on a line, output that line in
it's entirety to the console/file, and hopefully also prefixing the filename
or something - so I can know in what files the output refers to & found the
data.

Looked so far in vain for a good grep command or GUI that will do this, but
came across FINDSTR. It seems to have most of what I need, but when I use
the /x switch I get no output.

Here is what I'm doing:
findstr /x ".*Text I'm Searching For.*" *.log

(I'm in the current directory with all the .log files I'm searching for).

Anyone a pro at this command?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[GTS]

It seems inconsistent to use the /X switch which calls for an exact match
along with wilcards in the expression. It would be helpful if you showed
what your target text really looks like.