Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. If you will be in South Texas on August 9, , you should come check it out.
It should be great fun. The meeting will be available via Live Meeting. It feels like this week started late and will end early. Luckily, SH, the answer to your question is no, you do not have to write a script to parse a folder full of files for a particular string. In fact, it was a topic that was tested in the Beginner Event 6 in the Scripting Games.
The solution is to use the Select-String cmdlet. One thing to keep in mind is that the Select-String cmdlet reads text files; it cannot read the more complicated file types such as. When I attempted to search a folder containing the Word documents and pictures that make up a typical Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog post, Windows PowerShell displayed a bunch of gibberish in the console, and then locked up.
This is shown in the following figure. The easy way to avoid producing gibberish is to specify the file types you want to search. The nice thing about the Select-String cmdlet is that it expects the path as well as the pattern parameter to be strings, so I do not need to use quotation marks for either the pattern or the path. If I use the Get-Command cmdlet gcm is an alias for this cmdlet to examine the syntax for the Select-String cmdlet, I see that both the path and the pattern parameters will accept an array of strings.
You can keep the results of up to five searches. If you've already got five search results showing, the next search will reuse the oldest search result tab. In Visual Studio and later, you can set Visual Studio to always keep results. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No.
Any additional feedback? Important If you are using Visual Studio version Choose Find in files from the list of results. Find what To search for a new text string or expression, specify it in the Find what box. Search box To search for a new text string or expression, specify it in the Search box.
You can select or clear the following option s : Match case - Use this option to make sure that your search is case-sensitive. Important The Expression Builder button appears next to the Search box only if you've selected the Use regular expressions checkbox. Expression Builder If you want to use regular expressions in your search string, select the adjacent Expression Builder button that's next to the search box.
Warning If you choose the Entire Solution or Current Project options, project and solution files are not searched. Note If you use the Look in option to search for a file that you have checked out from source code control, only the version of that file that's has been downloaded to your local machine is found.
Include subfolders Specifies that subfolders of the Look in folder will be searched. I have tried adding quotes and it does not make a difference. If I search for content: windows explorer help or content: 'windows explorer help' it will return all files that contain any of the words windows, explorer, or help. Does anybody know how I can search the contents of the files in a folder for an entire intact phrase as I was able to in previous versions? Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered.
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