I have started learning powershell a couple of days ago and I couldn t find anything on google that does what I need so please bear with my question I have been asked to replace some text strings into multiple files I do not necessarily know the extension of the possible target files and I don t know their location either So far I have managed to recursively browse into the directory get-ChildItem -recurse and find the string I was looking for with get-content and select-string Get-ChildItem -recurse Get-Content Select-String -pattern dummy The problem is I can see the occurences of the text I am looking for but I don t know how to tell PS to return the path and the name for every matching files as well How can I get the name and location of the files that contains the expression I am looking for

How to search a string in multiple files and return the names of files in Powershell?

This should give the location of the files that contain your pattern:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Select-String "dummy" -List | Select Path

~ Answered on 2011-11-16 15:08:33