FIND - Searches for text SORT - Rearranges data in alpha order MORE - Displays data a screenfull at a time
Pipes let you direct the output of one command as input to another. The pipe symbol is the vertical bar "|" above the "" (press shift-backslash). Pipes are used with filters as follows.
To get a Dir list of all the files that have "ZIP" somewhere in their names, you would type:
C:>dir | find "ZIP" command
PKUNZIP EXE results displayed
PKZIP EXE
C:>
The pipe redirects the Dir list output to the find command, which looks for ZIP and filters only lines with "ZIP" in them through to output. See DOS Find, DOS Sort, DOS Type and DOS Dir.
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