Allright, I know it can be done, with I *think* one command, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. I need to beable to be in root, and do a search for one word and have it look in all files and directories for that word. and no the command I'm thinking of isn't find.

Second thing: Is there any way, without getting any extra programs to encrypt a file? Any encryption will do, I've been looking for a few days now and all I get is other programs that will do it in DOS

Thank you in advance for and advice/help/comments you guys leave!It has been a long time since I had anything to do with "true DOS" so this might be inaccurate.

1. Other than "Find", I can't think of anything at the moment.

2. To my knowledge, and to Google's knowledge, there is no real method of encrypting files in DOS. The best solution I can find would be to make the file Read-only, but even then that allows people to ACCESS the file. So I don't think so. DOS wasn't designed in the days of hackers running rampant (since the Web wasn't very, um, there. The only viruses people could get was disk to disk.)A pretty good DOS resource PAGE can be found here...

http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/indexall.htm

patio. 8-)hmm ok I was half wrong, it was half the find command just USEING it as a filter the command I was looking for was
dir C:\ /s /b | find "text"
and YA, there is NOTHING for encryption/compression in dos... I'm going to try to use back up as I need to fool the above command. if you guys have any other suggestions on fooling the command I listed other than compressing the file im more than open to suggestions.