Find-TextInFile

Searches files for matching text and displays selectable results.

Property	Value
Module	OSD
Platform	WinPE (amd64 / arm64)

Description

Recursively searches files under a path using Select-String, displays matching lines in Out-GridView, and opens selected files in Visual Studio Code when available.

Syntax

Find-TextInFile [-Path] <String> [-Text] <String> [[-Include] <String[]>] [-ProgressAction <ActionPreference>]
 [<CommonParameters>]

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
-Path	String	True	Root path to search recursively.
-Text	String	True	Text pattern to search for.
-Include	String[]	False	File include pattern(s) used by Get-ChildItem during the recursive search.

Examples

Example

Find-TextInFile -Path C:\Logs -Text Error -Include *.log
Searches all .log files in C:\Logs for Error and shows the matches.

Related

• https://github.com/OSDeploy/OSD/tree/master/docs