Thread: Finding of a file in MS-DOS

I am unable to locate a file in MS-DOS. How can I locate that file which is needed by me? Please help me in getting out of this problem?

Whenever you are working on a MS-DOS it is likely to find out any of the file on your computer, only on a condition that you must know the name of the file or the program that the file was produced in correctly in order to locate it easily.
If you are not certain about where the file may be located on the computer, you must always be at the root index of the computer. Involving that you must be at C:\> to get to this prompt, type cd\
Once when you are at the root directory or the directory you will believe that the file is to be in, any type of the below given commands.
If, for example, you knew that the file had bob anywhere in the file you would type:
dir *bob*.* /s
In the above example you will also make use of the wild character, which in MS-DOS is the asterisks (*). In adding up to the asterisks, we make use of the /s that tells the dir command to search the present directory and all directories accordingly.
If you are not able to recall any of the names of the files but remember that they were produced in Microsoft Excel you could, for example, type:
dir *.xls /s
In the above example, meaningful that Excel files is generally forever end with .xls, we again use the wild character, effective the computer to search for any file ending with .xls. Finally, once you have found the file, you must interpret the output of your search and must be able to change the directories to get to that file.