How to Find Text in Files PowerShell

2017-12-20 // powershell

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If you have ever needed to find files which contain specific text in them it is really easy to do with PowerShell.

You can do so with the following command:

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Get-ChildItem "C:\path\to\folder"  -recurse | Where-Object { (Get-Content $_) -like '*TextToFind*' } | Select-Object { $_.FullName}

This will return a list of all files that have TextToFind in it (replace with whatever you want to look up).

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