PowerShell equivalent to grep -f

Question

I\'m looking for the PowerShell equivalent to grep --file=filename. If you don\'t know grep, filename is a text file where each line has a regular

Answer 1

The -Pattern parameter in Select-String supports an array of patterns. So the one you're looking for is:

Get-Content .\doc.txt | Select-String -Pattern (Get-Content .\regex.txt)

This searches through the textfile doc.txt by using every regex(one per line) in regex.txt