Using the following Select-String
command in PowerShell:
Select-String -Path E:\Documents\combined0.txt -Pattern "GET /ccsetup\.exe" -AllMatches > E:\Documents\combined3.txt
creates an output file with each line starting with the path and file name followed by a colon. For example:
E:\Documents\combined0.txt:255:255.255.255 - - [31/Dec/2014:04:15:16 -0800] "GET /ccsetup.exe HTTP/1.1" 301 451 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SearchmetricsBot; http://www.xxxx.com/en/xxxx-bot/)"
How do I get rid of the output file path name, output file name and colon in the results?
Select-String
outputs an object from which you can pick off properties that you want. The Get-Member
command will show you these object members if you pipe into it e.g.:
Select-String -Path E:\Documents\combined0.txt -Pattern "GET /ccsetup\.exe" -AllMatches |
Get-Member
One of those properties is Line
. So try it this way:
Select-String -Path E:\Documents\combined0.txt -Pattern "GET /ccsetup\.exe" -AllMatches |
Foreach {$_.Line} > E:\Documents\combined3.txt
As usual powershell returns things as objects, by default select-string returns several properties including LineNumber, Filename, etc; the one you want with the data in is just called "Line". So no need for anything fancy, just pipe it to "select line".
Eg:
Select-String "bla" filename.txt | select line
Or in your example:
Select-String -Path E:\Documents\combined0.txt -Pattern "GET /ccsetup\.exe" -AllMatches | select line | out-file E:\Documents\combined3.txt
If you're looking for (sub)strings rather than patterns, using the -like
operator might be a better approach, performance-wise and with respect to ease-of-use.
$searchString = 'GET /ccsetup.exe'
Get-Content 'E:\Documents\combined0.txt' |
? { $_ -like "*$searchString*" } |
Set-Content 'E:\Documents\combined3.txt'
If you do need pattern matches, you can easily replace the -like
operator with the -match
operator:
$pattern = 'GET /ccsetup\.exe'
Get-Content 'E:\Documents\combined0.txt' |
? { $_ -match $pattern } |
Set-Content 'E:\Documents\combined3.txt'
Get-Content E:\Documents\combined0.txt | Select-String -Pattern "GET /ccsetup\.exe" -AllMatches
# define your search path
$files = Get-ChildItem "./some_path"
for ($i=0; $i -lt $files.Count; $i++) {
# loop through files in search folder
$x=Select-String -Path $files[$i].FullName -Pattern "whatYouSearch"
# retrieve the info with the option Line
$out=$x.Line
# echo to output file (append)
$out >> result.csv
}