Grep alternative in Windows

Question

I have the command grep public -A 5 in Unix which prints the trailing 5 lines after the string public.

I need to do the same in Windows using command prompt. How do I do it?

the question has been closed as a duplicate although it is not the same of a question which was closed because not constructive — Nahuel Fouilleul, Apr 18 '18 at 11:13
[this link](https://superuser.com/questions/689886/grep-with-context-about-matched-lines-in-windows) may be a better candidate — Nahuel Fouilleul, Apr 18 '18 at 11:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '18 at 09:55

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with powershell

powershell -command "Get-ChildItem *.* | Select-String 'public' -context 0,5"

where *.* is replaced with filename pattern

answered Apr 18 '18 at 09:55

Nahuel Fouilleul

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