How to search a string in multiple files and return the names of files in Powershell?

Question

I have started learning powershell a couple of days ago, and I couldn\'t find anything on google that does what I need so please bear with my question.

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Answer 1

This is how I would do it, you don't need get-content:

ls -r | Select-String dummy | select line,path

or

ls -r | Select-String dummy | fl *

To see what the different properties are...

This is faster. The second argument is -filter:

ls -r . *.bat | select-string netsh

ls -r . -filter *.bat | select-string netsh