Finding a substring in a file name

[bluefire_xl]

I have a series of file in a folder and I want to check if a specific string is in one of the file name. I was looking at findstr command but I think it only looks at the content of the file.

Its like find "hold" in the file name holdings092516.txt should return true. I am a bit new to dos commands so I hope someone can help me.

[Compo]

Either:

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dir/b mydir\*.txt|find/i "hold"

or:

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dir/b mydir\*.txt|findstr/i "hold"

should work fine.

[bluefire_xl]

Thank you for the response.

I notice that it was returning the filename back if part of the string is found. Is their a way to determine the output by yes or no?

[Compo]

You could always use the where command:

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Where /Q "%UserProfile%\Documents" *hold* >Nul 2>&1
If %ErrorLevel%==1 (Echo=No) Else (Echo=Yes)

Or even search directly for the string in your dir command:

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Dir/A-D "%UserProfile%\Documents\*hold*" >Nul 2>&1&&(Echo=Yes)||(Echo=No)