more on searching text files with powershell

The powershell script discussed in last night's Tip can be modified to search for multiple strings, and specify whether or not your search should be case sensitive:

Select-String -Path C:\FooFolder\txt\*.txt -pattern Art,Beauty,Law -CaseSensitive

Simply separate the strings to search for with commas, and then enter the condition, -CaseSensitive at the end.

powershell script to search through text files

You can use a simple PowerShell script to search through multiple text files in a directory. This script:

Select-String -Path C:\foofolder\txt\*.txt -Pattern beauty

. . . sets your path in the folder, c:\FooFolder\txt, and then '*.txt' searches all text files in that folder. The operator Pattern directs Powershell to search for the term that you enter after it.

The results show the number of the line in each file the hit appears on, and the rest of the line the searched for string appears in.

Script to generate hash values of multiple files

This PowerShell script will generate hash values for multiple files in a single folder:

dir c:\foofolder\baseball -Recurse | Get-FileHash