![]() Select-String (our PowerShell grep) works on lines of text and by default will looks for the first match in each line and then displays the file name, line number, and the text within the matched line. Therefore what built-in abilities exist to search for plain text using RegEx patterns much like grep does? In this article we explore the myriad ways to search for text in files using PowerShell. PowerShell, being a language, is more than just a single purpose binary. Did you know PowerShell has grep? Well.almost. Grep can search files in a given directory or streamed input to output matches. ![]() Grep’s core is simply the ability to search plain text for a RegEx pattern. This venerable tool has been around for decades and is crucial to any administrator’s toolbelt. One of the first Linux commands that many system administrators learn is grep.
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