Find Text in Files and retrieve the line number

Question

I am trying to (programatically) find references to a specific string i.e. \'LOCK_ID\' within a large number of VB6 files. To help people navigate directly to the reference

Answer 1

You may want to look into the FINDSTR command-line utility: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490907.aspx