

# The following code snippet gets all the files in $Path that end in ".txt". $Text = "This is the data that I am looking for" Additionally, since we don’t know how many matches we are going to find, we’re going to create an array to store the found matches.In order to search for strings or string patterns, we’re going to use the cmdlet Select-String. We’re looking for only the files that contain one particular text string. Each of the files has random text data inside.


Let's consider a directory, " C:\Temp" with many text files created. Fortunately there is scripting on our side and, specially, Powershell scripting to aid in this usually very time consuming activity. txt files) or text-based configuration files spread over our system to find something specific, but it can be very time-consuming and tedious to sift through many files, manually. Sometimes we need to search in notes (such as quick.
