PowerShell extract strings from a file.
To extract only strings from a file using PowerShell, you can use the Select-String
cmdlet.
Here’s an example command to extract strings from a file:
Get-Content path/to/file.txt | Select-String -Pattern '\b\w+\b'
In this example, path/to/file.txt
is the path to the file you want to extract strings from. The Get-Content
cmdlet reads the file and outputs its content as an array of strings. The Select-String
cmdlet then searches for strings that match the regular expression pattern \b\w+\b
, which matches any word character (letters, cyfry, and underscores) surrounded by word boundaries. The output of the Select-String
cmdlet is a collection of MatchInfo
objects that contain the matching strings.
If you want to output just the matching strings (without the MatchInfo
objects), you can pipe the output to the ForEach-Object
cmdlet and use the $_.Matches.Value
property to extract the matching strings, like this:
Get-Content path/to/file.txt | Select-String -Pattern '\b\w+\b' | ForEach-Object { $_.Matches.Value }
This will output only the matching strings from the file.