Archive note: originally published September 16, 2018, and kept for the record. Find-InFiles is not maintained. The post is really about the PowerShell Gallery publishing experience, which is what still holds up.
I recently released a small search tool for PowerShell to the PowerShell Gallery called Find-InFiles (aka fifi).
It just needed a bit of polish and a couple of tweaks and it was ready to go. I mainly wanted to see how difficult the process of publishing to PSG was…
It was completely painless and it was over and done before I knew it.
Anyway, if you find yourself searching for strings in text files often, give it a try.
Install-Module Find-InFilesThe source is also located on GitHub.
Fifi and PowerClip were two small tools that came out of the early PowerShell years. What happened after them - and what came next - is in Back to Programming.