Windows 'findstr' command: Exclude results containing particular string

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Subway picture Subway · May 7, 2014 · Viewed 28k times · Source

To the command findstr str1 *.* I want to add something that will exclude the results which contain the string str2.

In Linux the way of doing it is to add | grep -v str2 (to grep str1 * of course). Is there an equivalent flag to -v in Windows?

Answer

ta.speot.is picture ta.speot.is · May 7, 2014

Is there an equivalent flag to -v in Windows?

The equivalent to -v is /V.

C:\Users\Todd>findstr /?
Searches for strings in files.

...

/V         Prints only lines that do not contain a match.

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