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Grep equivalent for Windows 7?

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Mar 15, 2026697626 views
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Is there a command prompt grep equivalent for Windows 7? That is, I want to filter out the results of a command: Bash use: What would it be from a Windows command prompt?

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ls | grep root

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Findstr sounds like what you want. I use it all the time as an approximate grep-equivalent on the Windows platform. Another example with pipes:

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