In Linux & Unix, I find that I use the grep command to filter the information by different utilities that returns more then a screen full of information. For example using netstat, normally I want to view only the connections to a certain port numbers. Below is an example in Linux.
I need to do the same type of filtering in the Windows Command Prompt. Using the Windows “find” command, I am able to filter the results with something similar to the grep command in Linux/Unix. In the example below, I want to see only those lines from the netstat utility that have the port number 1433. I am able to pipe the results to the “find” command for the string 1433.
An important difference with the “find” command is that I must have my filtering string in double quotes. Example: netstat -an | find “1433”
The find command does not have all the functionality of the grep command. However 90% of what I use in the grep command, I am able to accomplish with the “find” command. For example, I am able to filter the utility “tasklist” to return only the information on the services or processes that I am interested in seeing.
For the Powershell Console window:
In the PowerShell Console window, the find command will not work. The “findstr” does the same thing as the “find” in the command prompt.
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