I'm not so hot with PowerShell yet, but have managed to get this command to work quite nicely:
get-childitem "C:\Code\WC1" -Recurse | select-string "insert into\s+my_table" Thing is, I know I'm going to struggle to remember this, so how can I make it into a function where the path supplied to get-childitem and the search regex are parameters?
I'm using PowerShell 2.0.
more commonly these days the parameters are being called after the function declaration e.g.
Function Find-Code { param([string] $path, [string] $pattern) get-childitem $path -Recurse | select-string $pattern } 
Function Find-Code([string] $path, [string] $pattern) { get-childitem $path -Recurse | select-string $pattern } You can put this in your PowerShell Profile. An easy way to do this is to edit the $profile file (run something like notepad $profile from your PowerShell prompt) and just paste the text right in.
