Alternative to using findstr

Asked Jun 22 '20 at 07:01

Active Jun 22 '20 at 07:19

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TLDR: findstr and find are missing/not available. How else can I achieve the same result?

I'm trying to run the following command

ping -n 1 %%a | findstr /r /c:"[0-9] *ms"

To check if a host is pingable or not. However the pc it is to run on has a custom XP install that does not have find nor findstr, what could I do?

edited Jun 22 '20 at 07:19

oguz ismail

asked Jun 22 '20 at 07:01

Richard Maguire

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You only have MSDOS emulation? How about WSL? PowerShell? – Yaron Jun 22 '20 at 07:08
*"How else can I achieve the same result?"* Get a `grep` utility. See e.g. [What are good grep tools for Windows?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/87350/5221149) – Andreas Jun 22 '20 at 07:26
No PowerShell nor WSL. I cannot install any extra utilities. – Richard Maguire Jun 23 '20 at 01:42

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