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12-30-2007

Use Select-String's -Quiet switch --it returns a boolean value-- and filter the files that match with Where-Object to set their content to the new file:

set-content E:\test.txt (
get-childItem *.txt |
where {select-string $term $_ -quiet} |
get-content
)

--
Kiron

12-30-2007	#4 (permalink)
Kiron n/a posts	Re: Searching for content in text files with powershell Use Select-String's -Quiet switch --it returns a boolean value-- and filter the files that match with Where-Object to set their content to the new file: set-content E:\test.txt ( get-childItem *.txt \| where {select-string $term $_ -quiet} \| get-content ) -- Kiron
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