Vista - select-string to act like grep -v

Does anyone know how to use select-string to print out everything except some
string. ie. grep -v dontwantstring file.txt.

Thanks in advance,

Here is my Text file:
1) This is a test
2) To see if I can do grep -v
3) with select string Test

If you want to use select-string you can use the ! operator

48# cat mytext.txt | select-string "test"
1) This is a test
3) with select string Test

49# cat mytext.txt | ?{!($_ | select-string "test")}
cat mytext.txt | ?{!($_ | select-string "test")}

I am sure there is an easier way to accomplish what you want, but I am on
the bus ATM and cant poke around much.

"Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how to use select-string to print out everything except
> some
> string. ie. grep -v dontwantstring file.txt.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>

On May 11, 11:28 pm, Frank <F...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to use select-string to print out everything except some
> string. ie. grep -v dontwantstring file.txt.
>
> Thanks in advance,

If you mean literally everything except the string, then this seems
quicker:

(cat file.txt) - replace "dontwantstring"

-Hecks

"Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how to use select-string to print out everything except
> some
> string. ie. grep -v dontwantstring file.txt.

It might be nice if Select-String supported a -NotMatch parameter but it
doesn't. So I would do this:

PS> gc file.txt | ?{$_ -notmatch 'dontwantstring'}

--
Keith

On May 12, 5:25 am, "Keith Hill [MVP]"
<r_keith_h...@no.spam.thank.u.hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Frank" <F...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>
> news:160AA7EC-722B-4CA5-A64D-B29F51465CAA@microsoft.com...
>
> > Does anyone know how to use select-string to print out everything except
> > some
> > string. ie. grep -v dontwantstring file.txt.
>
> It might be nice if Select-String supported a -NotMatch parameter but it
> doesn't. So I would do this:
>
> PS> gc file.txt | ?{$_ -notmatch 'dontwantstring'}
>
> --
> Keith

But again that will only return the lines that don't contain the
string, is that what the OP wants? Using the example above, (gc
file.txt) -replace "test" will return:

1) This is a
2) To see if I can do grep -v
3) with select string

-Hecls

<hecks@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> But again that will only return the lines that don't contain the
> string, is that what the OP wants? Using the example above, (gc
> file.txt) -replace "test" will return:
>
> 1) This is a
> 2) To see if I can do grep -v
> 3) with select string

I think so. The definition of grep -v is:

-v

displays all lines not matching a pattern.

--
Keith