Vista - grep -r equiv

Hi,

What is the preferred method to doing the equivalent of "grep -r". I tried:

get-childitem *.ps1 | get-content | select-string "somestring" but it seems
to only get the top level .ps1 sripts.

thanks in advance,

this should work. This will list every file and add the lines if found.. you
can change that of course.

get-childitem *.ps1 -recurse | %{get-content $_.FullName;Write-Host
$_.FullName} | select-string "somestring"

"Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EA70370B-B79A-4015-A77D-A80DEE37319B@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> What is the preferred method to doing the equivalent of "grep -r". I
> tried:
>
> get-childitem *.ps1 | get-content | select-string "somestring" but it
> seems
> to only get the top level .ps1 sripts.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
>

That does not appear to work. I purposely put subdirs there and I had to do:

get-childitem *\*.ps1 -recurse

to find them. What gives?



"Brandon Shell" wrote:

> this should work. This will list every file and add the lines if found.. you
> can change that of course.
>
> get-childitem *.ps1 -recurse | %{get-content $_.FullName;Write-Host
> $_.FullName} | select-string "somestring"
>
> "Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EA70370B-B79A-4015-A77D-A80DEE37319B@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the preferred method to doing the equivalent of "grep -r". I
> > tried:
> >
> > get-childitem *.ps1 | get-content | select-string "somestring" but it
> > seems
> > to only get the top level .ps1 sripts.
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> >
> >
>
>

get-childitem requires path (at least as far as I can tell) for recursion.

What I did was:
get-childitem $mypath *.ps1 -recurse

"Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0AC67253-E72D-492B-8DD3-57D411F3F50E@microsoft.com...
> That does not appear to work. I purposely put subdirs there and I had to
> do:
>
> get-childitem *\*.ps1 -recurse
>
> to find them. What gives?
>
>
>
> "Brandon Shell" wrote:
>
>> this should work. This will list every file and add the lines if found..
>> you
>> can change that of course.
>>
>> get-childitem *.ps1 -recurse | %{get-content $_.FullName;Write-Host
>> $_.FullName} | select-string "somestring"
>>
>> "Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:EA70370B-B79A-4015-A77D-A80DEE37319B@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > What is the preferred method to doing the equivalent of "grep -r". I
>> > tried:
>> >
>> > get-childitem *.ps1 | get-content | select-string "somestring" but it
>> > seems
>> > to only get the top level .ps1 sripts.
>> >
>> > thanks in advance,
>> >
>> >
>>
>>

"Frank"

>
> What is the preferred method

Preferred?

> to doing the equivalent of "grep -r".
>

Well since grep is a process then perhaps
doing the same is running another process
too!

PS> LogParser -h -i:textline | select-string "recurse"

-recurse <level> : Max subdirectory recursion level
(0=no recurse, -1=all levels)

PS> LogParser "SELECT Text FROM '$pwd\*'
WHERE Text LIKE '%recurse%' "
-i:textline -recurse:" -1" -rtp:5 -statsff
Text
--------------------------------------------
ESC " -i:fs -recurse:0 -rtp:" -1" -statsff
-i:fs -recurse:0 -rtp:" -1" -statsff

Just another way!