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by Dewie
20 Oct 2016 09:59
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: FINDSTR woes with blank lines
Replies: 13
Views: 29748

Re: FINDSTR woes with blank lines

Sadly I've been pulled a different direction with this initiative and am now using C# (in just a few hours I had it working 100% as required too - weird). I had a look at the provided solution and, while I'm sure I could make use of it, I simply don't have the time to try to make it work with my exi...
by Dewie
17 Oct 2016 06:34
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: FINDSTR woes with blank lines
Replies: 13
Views: 29748

Re: FINDSTR woes with blank lines

sorry folks... it was a long week of beating my head against the wall and my brain was fried. New week, new efforts. Purpose: To generate a script that runs through a folder full of large log files, pull out the last two error messages (as seen in example below) along with 50 lines of text before/a...
by Dewie
14 Oct 2016 10:47
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: FINDSTR woes with blank lines
Replies: 13
Views: 29748

FINDSTR woes with blank lines

Well despite the wealth of information that seems to come up from this site with every query I pump in to Google I've been banging my head against the wall for a while now and have resorted to asking for help. Scenario: I have a folder full of large log (.txt) files. In these files there is occasion...