Select-String

Select-String is a powerful command line tool in PowerShell that allows you to search for specific text patterns within a file or files. It is primarily used for searching and manipulating text data.

With Select-String, you can search for regular expressions, multiple patterns simultaneously, and even search through multiple files or directories.

The tool provides various options to customize the search behavior, such as case-insensitive searches, displaying line numbers, and displaying context lines around matched patterns.

Select-String also supports filtering, allowing you to narrow down your search results by using other PowerShell cmdlets or by specifying additional criteria.

One of the notable features of Select-String is its ability to output the matching lines as new objects, which can be further piped to other commands for additional processing or manipulation.

The tool is extremely versatile and can be used effectively for tasks like log analysis, parsing text files, data extraction, and more.

Select-String is a fundamental tool for text processing on the Windows command line and is widely used by system administrators, developers, and power users alike.