I had quite a large file that I needed to parse, and the challenge was to extract certain lines that didn’t match a certain condition. The solution . . . PowerShell, like so: select-string -path filename -notmatch "criteria" | foreach {$_.line} | out-file -filepath filename -encoding ascii That’s it!
PS C:\workspace> (gc “fileToParse.txt”) -notmatch "<criteria>" | out-file "resultFile.txt" Note: <Criteria>, for example, “not".
1. Open PowerShell 2. CD into directory to work on 3. Execute the following command: get-childitem * -recurse | rename-item -newname { $_.name.ToLower() }
1. Open PowerShell 2. CD into directory to work on 3. Execute the following command: get-childitem * -recurse | rename-item -newname { $_.name -replace ".txt",".bcp" }
PS C:\> gc servers.txt | foreach { [system.diagnostics.fileversioninfo]::getversioninfo($_) }