Using PowerShell to remove lines from a text file if it contains a string

Question

I am trying to remove all the lines from a text file that contains a partial string using the below PowerShell code:

 Get-Content C:\\new\\temp_*.txt | Selec         


        

Answer 1

Suppose you want to write that in the same file, you can do as follows:

Set-Content -Path "C:\temp\Newtext.txt" -Value (get-content -Path "c:\Temp\Newtext.txt" | Select-String -Pattern 'H\|159' -NotMatch)

Answer 2

The pipe character | has a special meaning in regular expressions. a|b means "match either a or b". If you want to match a literal | character, you need to escape it:

... | Select-String -Pattern 'H\|159' -NotMatch | ...

Answer 3

Escape the | character using a backtick

get-content c:\new\temp_*.txt | select-string -pattern 'H`|159' -notmatch | Out-File c:\new\newfile.txt