Upper Case

[Squashman]

Did anyone ever notice that the FIND command upper cases your output? Was not sure if anyone ever documented this. Even when the file is not found it still upper cases the output.

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C:\Batch\SO>find /c /v "" fb.bat

---------- FB.BAT: 4

C:\Batch\SO>find /c /v "" params.bat
File not found - PARAMS.BAT

C:\Batch\SO>find /c /v "" params.txt

---------- PARAMS.TXT: 1

C:\Batch\SO>find /c /v "" C:\Batch\SO\null.txt

---------- C:\BATCH\SO\NULL.TXT: 0

[ShadowThief]

Interestingly, it doesn't seem to stay upper case when there's an asterisk involved.

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E:\hawk\Documents\Code\batch\>find /c /v "" "hi*2"
File not found - "hi*2"

It's fine with regular non-files, though.

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E:\hawk\Documents\Code\batch\passgen>find /c /v "" "hifive"
File not found - HIFIVE

[aGerman]

We already developed a function using FC.
viewtopic.php?t=5167#p30643
Maybe the line feed trick works here, too. (I didn't test it yet ...)

Steffen

[Squashman]

Interestingly, it doesn't seem to stay upper case when there's an asterisk involved

Well that pretty much kills that idea.

[Squashman]

Well looks like we can force it to upper case with an Asterisk in certain situations. I am not sure if the last example will be fool proof or not.

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C:\Batch\SO>find /c /v "" C:\Batch\S*O\null.txt
File not found - C:\BATCH\S*O\NULL.TXT

C:\Batch\SO>find /c /v "" C:\Batch\SO\null*.txt

---------- C:\BATCH\SO\NULL.TXT: 0

C:\Batch\SO>find /c /v "" C:\Batch\SO\notme*.txt
File not found - C:\Batch\SO\notme*.txt

C:\Batch\SO>find /c /v "" C:\Batch\SO\notme*.txt\
File not found - C:\BATCH\SO\NOTME*.TXT\

I will answer my own question. Failure with two many quotes.

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C:\Batch\SO>find "" "!^&:C:|>>""\notm*?e.txt\!"
File not found - !^&:C:|>>\NOTM*?E.TXT\!

C:\Batch\SO>find "" "!^&:C:|>>"\notm*?e.txt\!"
FIND: Parameter format not correct

But this was interesting.

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C:\Batch\SO>find "" "!^&:C:|>>""\notm*?e.txt\!"
File not found - !^&:C:|>>\NOTM*?E.TXT\!

C:\Batch\SO>find "" "!^&:C:|>>"."\notm*?e.txt\!"
File not found - !^&:C:|>>.
File not found - \NOTM*?E.TXT\!

C:\Batch\SO>find "" "!^&:C:|>>",\notm*?e.txt\!,bl,ah
File not found - !^&:C:|>>,\NOTM*?E.TXT\!,BL,AH

So FIND is stripping the quotes no matter where they are.