Search word inside .txt file using batch file

Question

I'm looking for a batch file to search through a txt file and if it finds the word "Failed" then EXIT 1. Any help?

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user62958 May 13 '09 at 19:02

3 answers

It might get you started ...

type file.txt | find "Failed"

If it returns something, you set the ERRORLEVEL variable to 1.

Hope it helps dude!

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Garrett May 13 '09 at 19:14

FindStr "Failed" YourFile.Txt >Nul:
If ErrorLevel 1  
  ... then it is NOT found (findstr returns 0 if found

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Stu May 13 '09 at 19:20

Vuk · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-13T19:22:26+0000

here is something similar to what Garrett said, but you can run it as a background process, for example displaying some other information on stdout:

@echo off
@start /wait FIND /C /I "SearchPhrase" path-to-your-file\filename.abc
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (do-something)