We can use this pattern in the Pattern parameter on Select-String. It looks like each employee name is surrounded by a | character. Finding Patterns with PowerShell Select-String To this, I need to figure out a familiar pattern each shows.
#Grep in powershell how to#
We're getting closer! Next, I need to figure out how to return all employee lines. Now notice that it's just returning a single line. PS> $employees | Select-String -Pattern 'Adam Bertram' Since each employee reference is on a new line, I can break them up by splitting this string on the new-line character (`n). We first need to figure out how to separate out each of these lines into different strings. Why's that? Well, the reason was that Select-String parsed the entire string as one. Notice that Select-String did return something so it found a match otherwise it would have returned nothing. ||Adam Bertram|| 2122 Acme Ct, Atlantic City, NJ To do that, I'll statically search for one of the employee names using the Pattern parameter. To grab just the employee names from this string, I'll first attempt just to get the syntax right on Select-String. I've assigned this string to a variable called $employees. =|Suzie Shoemaker|= 6783 Main St, Los Angelas, CA ||Joe Jonesy||- 555 Lone St, Las Vegas, NV How would you make that happen? First, let's start with the example string we'll be using. Unfortunately, this string isn't in any well-known structure, so you're forced to pull out all of the employee names via text parsing. Let's say you've got a big string of containing various employee names and addresses. We've got PowerShell's Select-String cmdlet.
The grep utility allows a user to search text using some different options, but this utility doesn't exist in Windows.
#Grep in powershell code#
When writing PowerShell code and you need to search for text inside of a single string or an entire text file, where do you turn? If you've used Linux very much, you're probably familiar with the popular grep utility.
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