Finding a string in a text file and reporting full file name and size











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I have the following script to find files containing a certain string and then report on the location of the file along with the size in bytes.



It works, but I seem to have made heavy weather of finding the string which involves a fair bit of tidying up afterwards to produce some clean output.



Any idea how I could make this more concise?



# Ignore errors
$ErrorActionPreference= 'silentlycontinue'

# Grab user options
$ext = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter extension "
$huntString = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter hunt string "

# Find text files (.log, .txt etc) containing the hunt string
$entries = gci -recurse -include *.$ext -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | select fullname, length | sort -property length

echo ''
foreach ($e in $entries)
{
# Find files containing the hunt string
$foundFile = (gci $e.fullname | select-string $huntString | measure-object | findstr Count)

# Output hit count along with size and name
$rawOutput = $foundFile.ToString() + $e.Length.ToString().PadRight(10,[char]32) + "`t" + $e.fullname

# Only output entries with a hit count
$cleanOutput = echo $rawOutput | select-string ": 1"

# Remove hit count
$finalOutput = $cleanOutput -replace "Count","" -replace ": ",""

# Trim and output
echo $finalOutput.TrimStart()
}









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    I have the following script to find files containing a certain string and then report on the location of the file along with the size in bytes.



    It works, but I seem to have made heavy weather of finding the string which involves a fair bit of tidying up afterwards to produce some clean output.



    Any idea how I could make this more concise?



    # Ignore errors
    $ErrorActionPreference= 'silentlycontinue'

    # Grab user options
    $ext = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter extension "
    $huntString = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter hunt string "

    # Find text files (.log, .txt etc) containing the hunt string
    $entries = gci -recurse -include *.$ext -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | select fullname, length | sort -property length

    echo ''
    foreach ($e in $entries)
    {
    # Find files containing the hunt string
    $foundFile = (gci $e.fullname | select-string $huntString | measure-object | findstr Count)

    # Output hit count along with size and name
    $rawOutput = $foundFile.ToString() + $e.Length.ToString().PadRight(10,[char]32) + "`t" + $e.fullname

    # Only output entries with a hit count
    $cleanOutput = echo $rawOutput | select-string ": 1"

    # Remove hit count
    $finalOutput = $cleanOutput -replace "Count","" -replace ": ",""

    # Trim and output
    echo $finalOutput.TrimStart()
    }









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      I have the following script to find files containing a certain string and then report on the location of the file along with the size in bytes.



      It works, but I seem to have made heavy weather of finding the string which involves a fair bit of tidying up afterwards to produce some clean output.



      Any idea how I could make this more concise?



      # Ignore errors
      $ErrorActionPreference= 'silentlycontinue'

      # Grab user options
      $ext = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter extension "
      $huntString = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter hunt string "

      # Find text files (.log, .txt etc) containing the hunt string
      $entries = gci -recurse -include *.$ext -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | select fullname, length | sort -property length

      echo ''
      foreach ($e in $entries)
      {
      # Find files containing the hunt string
      $foundFile = (gci $e.fullname | select-string $huntString | measure-object | findstr Count)

      # Output hit count along with size and name
      $rawOutput = $foundFile.ToString() + $e.Length.ToString().PadRight(10,[char]32) + "`t" + $e.fullname

      # Only output entries with a hit count
      $cleanOutput = echo $rawOutput | select-string ": 1"

      # Remove hit count
      $finalOutput = $cleanOutput -replace "Count","" -replace ": ",""

      # Trim and output
      echo $finalOutput.TrimStart()
      }









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      I have the following script to find files containing a certain string and then report on the location of the file along with the size in bytes.



      It works, but I seem to have made heavy weather of finding the string which involves a fair bit of tidying up afterwards to produce some clean output.



      Any idea how I could make this more concise?



      # Ignore errors
      $ErrorActionPreference= 'silentlycontinue'

      # Grab user options
      $ext = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter extension "
      $huntString = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter hunt string "

      # Find text files (.log, .txt etc) containing the hunt string
      $entries = gci -recurse -include *.$ext -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | select fullname, length | sort -property length

      echo ''
      foreach ($e in $entries)
      {
      # Find files containing the hunt string
      $foundFile = (gci $e.fullname | select-string $huntString | measure-object | findstr Count)

      # Output hit count along with size and name
      $rawOutput = $foundFile.ToString() + $e.Length.ToString().PadRight(10,[char]32) + "`t" + $e.fullname

      # Only output entries with a hit count
      $cleanOutput = echo $rawOutput | select-string ": 1"

      # Remove hit count
      $finalOutput = $cleanOutput -replace "Count","" -replace ": ",""

      # Trim and output
      echo $finalOutput.TrimStart()
      }






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