Pipe and grep in windows

Ian Kelling Ian Kelling 9, 8 8 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I think this solution is easier and better, use directly the function findstr: alias findstr -i Write You can also make an alias to use grep word: new-alias grep findstr. Roi Roi 1, 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges.

This is the most intuitive and easy to remember approach among all the other answers. Just to clarify two things since I was a little confused trying to understand what this command is doing. First the -i. So it means it's a case insesitive search. The next thing that confused me was the Write at the end. I thought that Write-Output was being replaced in-place for findstr to search through. It's not. So what's actually happening is each line of Get-Alias is piped to findstr and that will search the piped str for a case insesitive match of the search term "Write".

Should be the answer. Perfect for my needs! Zombo 1. Mike Shepard Mike Shepard Just wanted to add that this works on output from a generic cli program. It mimics Linux. Utility — zBernie. Keith Hill Keith Hill k 37 37 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. You can also use findstr where PowerShell will handle conversion to text for you, since it's not a cmdlet but a program just out of completeness; in general it's always better to filter according to properties, imho :- — Joey.

FYI, as per Powershell 3, the following is more concise: gal Where Definition -match 'alias' — tkokasih. Hi, thank you for sharing this handy piece of information! Icechen1 says:. August 21, at pm. Hehe, thanks for the share! As a old unix user, this can come in handy! Danish says:. Thank you for sharing the info.

Basically we need a data, ideally a text file for easy example of cut. Maximum probably possible usage of cut alone can be this example command extracts the fields in the file using a delimiter. The -d option in cut utility can be used to specify the delimiter ' ' here and -f option is used to specify the field position :. Now, let see some examples of grep.

For example :. This is important as this command :. This was our basic goal to learn. Unix Pipe will help. For example, this will return only the number of the HTTP status :. The above is a bogus way of using the utilities because we could grep "" before. Notify me of new posts via email. Search for: Search. What is grep command in Linux? The syntax of grep command is given below.

Can use multiple times. S ample usages are given below. We have another command in powershell which is Select-String An example usage is given below. Feel free to comment if you have any questions or suggestions.