Comments on: msh: Extract text from a stream with grep-string http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/637/msh-extract-text-from-a-stream-with-grep-string/ Computer and technology tutorials and guides Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:56:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/637/msh-extract-text-from-a-stream-with-grep-string/comment-page-1/#comment-2848 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:05:59 +0000 guid-fix-me!#comment-2848 Thomas, I didn't use beta 3, so I don't know if its the same, but there is now the select-string cmdlet (as of PowerShell RC1) If it is the same, you'd probably already know about it (since you're blog has quite a bit of info on msh(PowerShell) However, for others passing through, I thought I'd post this example: <code> > set-content test.txt "Hello World" > dir *.txt|select-string ^H.*d$ test.txt:1:Hello World </code> Thomas,
I didn’t use beta 3, so I don’t know if its the same, but there is now the select-string cmdlet (as of PowerShell RC1)
If it is the same, you’d probably already know about it (since you’re blog has quite a bit of info on msh(PowerShell)

However, for others passing through, I thought I’d post this example:

> set-content test.txt "Hello World"
> dir *.txt|select-string ^H.*d$
test.txt:1:Hello World

]]> By: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/637/msh-extract-text-from-a-stream-with-grep-string/comment-page-1/#comment-2665 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:31:38 +0000 guid-fix-me!#comment-2665 Sadly, it would appear that grep-string is not a part of MSH Beta 3: <code> [C:]: dir | grep-string 'grep-string' is not recognized as a Cmdlet, function, operable program, or script file. At line:1 char:17 + dir | grep-string <<<< [C:]: </code> Thomas (http://tfl09.blogspot.com) Sadly, it would appear that grep-string is not a part of MSH Beta 3:

[C:]: dir | grep-string
'grep-string' is not recognized as a Cmdlet, function, operable program, or script file.
At line:1 char:17
+ dir | grep-string <<<<
[C:]:

Thomas
(http://tfl09.blogspot.com)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/637/msh-extract-text-from-a-stream-with-grep-string/comment-page-1/#comment-1196 Anonymous Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:15:15 +0000 guid-fix-me!#comment-1196 I regularly (heh) use dir/s/b | findstr /f:/ /r "^my.*reg[a-z][^0-9]expr>" in the Windows cmd shell I regularly (heh) use dir/s/b | findstr /f:/ /r “^my.*reg[a-z][^0-9]expr>” in the Windows cmd shell

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