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 will display a list of the full path to each file that contains the search string:

foreach ($file in Get-ChildItem | Select-String -pattern "dummy" | Select-Object -Unique path) {$file.path}

Note that it doesn't display a header above the results and doesn't display the lines of text containing the search string. All it tells you is where you can find the files that contain the string.