So, I spent a good couple of hours today trying to find a easy solution to the lack of Grep on windows. I've tried using findstr but the output gave me a headache trying to parse it. So I decidied to use powershell, what a great tool by MS, once you get past the learning curve obviously.
Here is my code for grep the way i like it. I just created a PS1 file and added it to my “bin” dir… which is just a directory mapped to my path variable for command line programs. Anyways this looks through code files only based on the $filetypes… handy.. really it is…
$searchstr = $args[0]
$searchdir = $args[1]
$filetypes = “*.cpp”, “*.hpp”, “*.c”, “*.h”, “*.cxx”, “*.hxx”, “*.cs”, “*.aspx”,”*.asmx”, “*.html”, “*.js”, “*.vbs”, “*.vb”, “*.xml”, “*.txt”
if($searchdir -eq “” )
{
$searchdir = “.\”
}
get-childitem $searchdir -include $filetypes -recurse | select-string -pattern $searchstr | Format-Table -property FileName, LineNumber, Line -Autosize
Tags: Powershell
