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I have a lot of big text files. And I'm searching (within cmd.exe) for a list of values in them as following:

findstr /i /n /g:strings.txt 1\*.* >results.txt

where strings.txt is the file with all the values I'm looking for and 1 is a folder where all my text files are.

There is valuable information in preceding and next strings to the one that I can find with findstr. Could you please help me writing a script to have 3 lines in results.txt for each match?

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    Can you use Powershell? Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 14:01

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Powershell. Specifically, the -Context parameter of the Select-String Cmdlet will give you the context surrounding the selected text.

PS C:\Users\ryan> gc .\temp.txt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 PS C:\Users\ryan> gc .\temp.txt | Select-String '4' -Context 3 1 2 3 > 4 5 6 7
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