Set a variable

[ardmore]

Hi, I want to use "find" command to count the number of lines containing the string in a text file. The command is pretty straightforward.
My question is that can I save the result to a variable?
Because I am going to use it in microsoft .net application.
Thanks

[aGerman]

Try this line:

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for /f "tokens=2,3 delims=:" %%i in ('find /c "SearchString" "file.ext"') do if "%%j"=="" (set /a var=%%i) else set /a var=%%j

The number of lines should be in %var% now.

But do you realy mean it is a good idea to use this in .net?

Regards
aGerman

[ardmore]

I want to introduce it in a console application.

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Console.Write("Count"+lines);

The lines is the number of lines. I use the code like

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Process test = new Process();
test.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd";
test.StartInfo.Arguments = @....

I don't know how to combine your code with my snippet.

[orange_batch]

This is how to run CMD and pass code as an argument:

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cmd /c for /f "tokens=2,3 delims=:" %%i in ('find /c "SearchString" "file.ext"') do if "%%j"=="" (set /a var=%%i) else set /a var=%%j

cmd /c terminates cmd after the code. cmd /k keeps cmd running after the code.