find all files and lines that contains a specific string

I'm quite new with powershell, and I need to help my colleague finding all files in a folder that contains the word /Documents/.

The output has to be in a text file containing both the path and the line in that file.

As a start I've managed to extract the paths using the following code. But I can't manage to include the following lines:

$path = 'C:\Users\XXX'
$Text =”/Documents/"
$PathArray = @()
Get-ChildItem $path -Filter *.rdl -Recurse | ForEach-Object { If (Get-Content $_.FullName | Select-String -Pattern $Text ){ $PathArray += $_.FullName $PathArray += $_.FullName #write-Host "jhk" } $PathArray | % {$_} | Out-File "C:\Users\XX\tes2.txt"-Append } Write-Host "Contents of ArrayPath:"
$PathArray | ForEach-Object {$_}

This code works, but as said, I'm not sure how to add the lines as well.

1 Answer

It's critical that if you are new, that you first spend the time to ramp up to prevent a lot of unnecessary frustration and confusion you are going to encounter.

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• There are lots of free PowerShell eBooks on Microsoft's websites and others.

See also: The PowerShell Survival Guide

As for a specific example on your question. How about this approach?

$searchWords = @('Hello','Client')
Foreach ($sw in $searchWords)
{ Get-Childitem -Path "d:\temp" -Recurse -include "*.txt","*.csv" | Select-String -Pattern "$sw" | Select Path,LineNumber,@{n='SearchWord';e={$sw}}
}
# Partial Results
Path LineNumber SearchWord
---- ---------- ----------
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\PsGet.txt 157 Hello
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\PsGet.txt 161 Hello
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\StringText.txt 1 Hello
D:\temp\Duplicates\PoSH\PsGet.txt 157 Hello
D:\temp\Duplicates\PoSH\PsGet.txt 161 Hello
D:\temp\Duplicates\PoSH\StringText.txt 1 Hello
...
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\PoSH-Get-Mo... 108 Client
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\Powershell ... 12 Client
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\Powershell ... 15 Client
...
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\WindowsFeat... 92 Client
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\WindowsFeat... 94 Client
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\WindowsFeat... 149 Client
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\WindowsFeat... 157 Client
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\WindowsFeat... 191 Client
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\WindowsFeat... 239 Client
D:\temp\Duplicates\BeforeRename1\WindowsFeat... 241 Client