Use set content to create multiple output files

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I have a PowerShell script:

(Select-String -path c:\*.txt -Pattern 'searchstring').Line | set-content d:\output.txt

It works fine but the output file is too big. What I would like is for it to output multiple files so output.txt is the same number of files as is being read in with the wild card.

So:

c:\1.txt
c:\2.txt
c:\3.txt

Would output the matched lines to:

d:\1.txt
d:\2.txt
d:\3.txt
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1 Answers

As Santiago Squarzon suggests, use Get-ChildItem to retrieve the target files, then call Select-String on them one by one:

Get-ChildItem c:\*.txt |
  ForEach-Object {
    if ($lines = ($_ | Select-String -Pattern 'SearchPattern').Line) {
      Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path d:\ $_.Name) -Value $lines
    }
  }
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