Comments on: Grep-ing in Powershell

By: grep

grep — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:22:11 +0000

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”}

By: Lord TCT

Lord TCT — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:17:53 +0000

Thanks for the tip Nelson!

By: Steve Nelson

Steve Nelson — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:29:19 +0000

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}

By: Jerry Loyd

Jerry Loyd — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:15:07 +0000

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!