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Select-StringRecurse

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When you need to search for text in a file, select-string is your best friend.  It has most of the functionality of old unix grep.  In addition it does full regular expression support.

The only downside is that it will only run on files in the current directory.  Unlike get-childitem, it has no recurse parameter.  In addition, I'm lazy and I don't like typing out select-string every time.  I have the following definitions in my Profile to make this easier. 

function Select-StringRecurse()
{
    param ( $text = $(throw "Need text to search for"),
            $filter = "*" )
    gci -re -in $filter | ? { -not $_.PSIsContainer } | % { ss $text $_ }
}  

set-alias ss    select-string
set-alias ssr   Select-StringRecurse

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2007
    PingBack from http://www.artofbam.com/wordpress/?p=5995

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2008
    Previously I blogged about a recursive select-string function. Recently I've extended it a bit. I found

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2008
    Previously I blogged about a recursive select-string function. Recently I've extended it a bit. I