This command searches all files with the. Select-String displays HELLO in the PowerShell console.

Parameter and specifies that the string in the pattern isn't interpreted as a regular expression. Specifies that the case must match only the upper-case pattern. Select-String uses the Pattern parameter to specify HELLO. The text strings Hello and HELLO are sent down the pipeline to the Select-String cmdlet. 'Hello', 'HELLO' | Select-String -Pattern 'HELLO' -CaseSensitive -SimpleMatch This example does a case-sensitive match of the text that was sent down the pipeline to the Examples Example 1: Find a case-sensitive match If the file has no BOM, it assumes the encoding is UTF8. Select-String uses the byte-order-mark (BOM) toĭetect the encoding format of the file.

When you're searching files of Unicode text. You can also specify that Select-String should expect a particular character encoding, such as Select-String can be used to display all text that doesn't match the specified pattern. Select-String can display all the text matches or stop after the first match in each input file. You can direct Select-String to find multiple matches per line, display textīefore and after the match, or display a Boolean value (True or False) that indicates whether a Line and, for each match, it displays the file name, line number, and all text in the lineĬontaining the match. By default, Select-String finds the first match in each You can use Select-String similar to grep in UNIX or findstr.exe in The Select-String cmdlet uses regular expression matching to search for text patterns in input

Find file containing text