Vista - how to show the name of child item after its in the pipeline?

hi list;
i am using the following to search status reports and extract hours estimates
get-childitem |get-content |where-object{$_ -match "hours"}

works great because it saves a ton of work, but what i'd really like is to
be able to take the name of the chiditem piped and expose its name at the
start of the line, so it should look like

filename1 estimated hours 40-60
filename2 estimated hours 35-50
filenameN estimated hours ddd-ddd

but sticking anything between get-childitem and get-content ain't gettin it.
thanks very much for your help

Select-String returns Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.MatchInfo object -unless the -List switch is present.
Its output by default shows the Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.MatchInfo's Filename, LineNumber and Line properties:

# pipe the items to its Path parameter by Property Name
# and a RegEx to its Pattern parameter positionally
ls | select-string hours

# if you don't want the line number
ls | select-string hours | % {$_.filename + ':' + $_.line}

This Cmdlet performs great...

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Kiron

# oops
-unless the -List switch is present.

# should be...
-unless the -Quiet switch is present.

--
Kiron

this powershell stuff makes me feel kinda dizzy and my mouth get dry...
thanks a ton Kiron.
drew

"Kiron" wrote: