dir search for ~

[captainhastings]

Hi folks using dir I need to search for files named test~test.txt for example.
Tried dir *~* /s /b which does not work and returns every thing. Yet for other special chars this does work
dir *!* "*&*" /s /b
and returns correct result.

Thanks

 

[Rroff]

~ is probably filtering all filenames above 8 characters long due to the way long filenames are handled - sticking with DOS you might need to capture the dir output then filter for filenames with ~ which is a bit of a longer script.

 

[captainhastings]

Thanks good point. I just pipped into txt file and used
findstr "~" c:\tmp.txt
which gives what I need

 

[BigBoy]

Powershell will output correctly if it's available.