Batch command to find number pof occurrences of a string in a file

Issue

I need to find how many times a string exists in a file. If it is not equal to 0 then return error status:

set "file=C:\output\summary.txt"
for /f %%F in (findstr /I "FAIL" %file% | find /I /C "FAIL") do (
    set count=%%F
)

if count neq 0 exit /B 1
exit /B 0

But when I run the batch I get error:

| was unexpected at this time.

How can I fix the issue and achieve the expected?

Solution

That seems very complicated when the find command does what you need (it sets %ERRORLEVEL% to 1 if it doesn’t find the string):

set "file=C:\output\summary.txt"
find /C "FAIL" %file%
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" (
    exit /B 1
) else (
    exit /B 0
)

Answered By – thebjorn

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