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.

I have been a

Answer 1

I modified one of the answers above to give me a bit more information. This spared me a second query later on. It was something like this:

Get-ChildItem `
        -Path "C:\data\path" -Filter "Example*.dat" -recurse | `
    Select-String -pattern "dummy" | `
    Select-Object -Property Path,LineNumber,Line | `
    Export-CSV "C:\ResultFile.csv"

I can specify the path and file wildcards with this structures, and it saves the filename, line number and relevant line to an output file.