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Grep-ing in Powershell
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UNIX users who are so used to grep would ask “how do I grep in Powershell?”. Here’s how:

In Bash we write:

ls | grep ".aspx"

The equivalent in Powershell would be:

ls | where {$_ -match ".aspx"}

Bash@Linux output:

[root@gw-1 easilogin]# ls -all | grep ".aspx"
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root   682 Jul 29 20:38 AccountBanned.aspx
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root    77 Jul 29 20:38 AccountBanned.aspx.vb
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  2320 Jul 29 20:38 CodeAuthentication.aspx
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  1623 Jul 29 20:38 CodeAuthentication.aspx.vb
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  1459 Aug  1 14:25 ForgetPassword.aspx
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  3563 Aug  1 14:25 ForgetPassword.aspx.vb
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  2888 Jul 29 20:38 login.aspx
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  8298 Jul 29 20:38 login.aspx.vb
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root    98 Jun 23 12:54 logout.aspx
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  2864 Aug  3 21:12 My_Account.aspx
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  1704 Aug  3 21:12 My_Account.aspx.vb
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root   475 Jul 29 20:38 NotAuthenticated.aspx
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root    78 Jul 29 20:38 NotAuthenticated.aspx.vb

Powershell@Windows2008 output:

PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\192.168.1.11\inetpub\wwwroot\easilogin> ls | where {$_ -match ".aspx"}

Directory: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\192.168.1.11\inetpub\wwwroot\easilogin

Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name
----                -------------     ------ ----
-a---         7/29/2008   8:38 PM        682 AccountBanned.aspx
-a---         7/29/2008   8:38 PM         77 AccountBanned.aspx.vb
-a---         7/29/2008   8:38 PM       2320 CodeAuthentication.aspx
-a---         7/29/2008   8:38 PM       1623 CodeAuthentication.aspx.vb
-a---          8/1/2008   2:25 PM       1459 ForgetPassword.aspx
-a---          8/1/2008   2:25 PM       3563 ForgetPassword.aspx.vb
-a---         7/29/2008   8:38 PM       2888 login.aspx
-a---         7/29/2008   8:38 PM       8298 login.aspx.vb
-a---         6/23/2008  12:54 PM         98 logout.aspx
-a---          8/3/2008   9:12 PM       2864 My_Account.aspx
-a---          8/3/2008   9:12 PM       1704 My_Account.aspx.vb
-a---         7/29/2008   8:38 PM        475 NotAuthenticated.aspx
-a---         7/29/2008   8:38 PM         78 NotAuthenticated.aspx.vb
4 Comments

4 Responses to “Grep-ing in Powershell”

  1. Jerry Loyd Says:
    June 29th, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    Thanks for this post. I was on the wrong track till I found this. I just happen to be wanting to filter the Process list too!

  2. Steve Nelson Says:
    September 29th, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    One caveat to this post…if you want to grep on a particular field other than the last one in the list, you have to explicitly specify the object. Using the example above, to grep on the file length equaling 2888, you would have to use:

    ls | where {$_.Length -match 2888}

  3. Lord TCT Says:
    October 25th, 2010 at 4:17 pm

    Thanks for the tip Nelson!

  4. grep Says:
    December 24th, 2011 at 1:22 am

    grep reads the content of the file, anything close to that in powershell would be get-content. So if you were looking for the string “Successfully Completed” in the .log files of a directory, here’s what you could do:

    Get-Content *.log | where {$_ -match “Successfully Completed”}

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