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PIPRON79
PIPRON79

Reputation: 141

Search for files containing specific numbers with Powershell

I have a list of file Id's

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and I want to find the system feed files containing any of these numbers from a vast directory using powershell.

I was using Get-Content Cash* -totalcount 1 > cash_Check_outputfile.txt but as each file contains numerous headers this was not working as I hoped.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Much appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1414

Answers (1)

Martin Brandl
Martin Brandl

Reputation: 58961

Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to retrieve all files and use the Select-String cmdlet to find the files containing any number within your dictionary ($test in this example). Finally, use the Select-Object cmdlet to get the path.

$test = @(
    707839
    709993
)

$pathToSearch = 'C:\test'    
Get-ChildItem $pathToSearch | Select-String $test | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Path

Upvotes: 1

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