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Grep Without GREP in Windows

You want to use GREP, but you don’t want to install it in Windows. That’s fine, here’s another way using FINDSTR:

You can use the ubiquitous (in Windows) /? to get help:

findstr /?

…putting all that together, let’s grep without GREP:

findstr /I /S /M /C:”That thing I sent you”

…Get back