If you are like me, you have built up a good amount of scripts over time and haven’t yet made it to the point of creating modules or other ways to handle all of them. I needed a way to be able to search through all these scripts to find the little gems that hide within.
I came up with this short and sweet script I can run quickly to find the tidbits I am looking for. The script will prompt for a keyword and then search recursively the path specified showing the output via Out-GridView.
Not a perfect solution but works very well. It could also be tweaked to search files other than *.ps1 easily enough.
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| function Find-Script | |
| { | |
| param | |
| ( | |
| [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] | |
| [string]$Keyword | |
| ) | |
| # Max results returned | |
| $Maximum = 20 | |
| # Path to scripts directory | |
| $StartPath = "E:\scripts" | |
| Get-ChildItem -Path $StartPath -Filter *.ps1 -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | | |
| Select-String -SimpleMatch -Pattern $Keyword -List | | |
| Select-Object -Property FileName, Path, Line -First $Maximum | | |
| Out-GridView -Title 'Script Files Found' | |
| } | |
| $keyword = Read-Host "Enter keyword to search for" | |
| Find-Script $keyword | |
| # Prompt to exit script | |
| Write-Host "`n`nPress any key to exit – also closes grid view window…" -fore "Yellow" | |
| $x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown") |