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Findstr with wild card or greater than "X" Time

Trying to put a batch file together that will find a string within a text file. Only obstacle is I want to find values that occur in the evening(PM) and NOT in the Morning(AM).

I am trying to find "XBR Upload successful" however only if exists in the PM:

Exert from the log file: [3:35:07AM] XBR Upload successful.

I have the following:

@echo off
findstr /M "[*PM] XBR Upload successful." C:\Test.log
if errorlevel = 1 GOTO NOMATCH
if errorlevel = 2 GOTO MATCH

Wildcards * does not seem to be working for me. Seems to find [*PM] even though in the log file no PM timing exists yet.

Any guidance appreciated!

Solution

  • You should try like that :

    @echo off
Set InputFile=c:\Test.log
Set OutPutFile=c:\LogFile.txt
Type "%InPutFile%" |findstr /M /R /C:"\[.*PM\] XBR Upload successful." > %OutPutFile%  
If "%Errorlevel%" EQU "1" GOTO :NOMATCH
If "%Errorlevel%" EQU "0" GOTO :MATCH

:MATCH
Color 0A
echo MATCH
pause
Start "" %OutPutFile% 
Exit /b

:NOMATCH
Color 0C
echo NO MATCH
pause
Exit /b