brain-dump/sysadmin/windows/regex-search-with-powershell.md

Regex Searches with Powershell

Make a findthis.txt file containing words you want to search:

POST
payment

Run the following in a Powershell terminal:

Get-Content .\current.log | Select-String -Pattern (Get-Content .\findthis.txt) > results.txt

• current.log is the target file you're going to search
• findthis.txt is your list of regex variables you're targeting
• results.txt is an extraction of your matches