Ian
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Search a folder/files for string of text - Use PowerShell to search a folder for a particular string of text in your files
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Search a folder/files for string of text - Use PowerShell to search a folder for a particular string of text in your files
I was looking for a Windows application that would allow me to search some files in the same folder for a particular string of text, but many of the apps to do this were fairly expensive. So, I made use of a few lines of PowerShell code to do this for free!
This script will prompt you for the folder to search (it will search ALL files in this folder and any sub-directories), then it will ask you for the string of text to search for.
The filename and line of text are then listed, so you can...
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