powershell select-string add breaks / new line

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I'm using the select-string in my powershell script

Select-String D:\logs\xyz.log -pattern "error"

works fine but it gives me back ALL lines of my logfile which include the keyword "error". As I'm sending an email later with the detected logs a readable structure would me nice, but the content of the select-string does not include any structure.

Best solution would be to add <br> after every detected line, because the mail is in html format and this would solve my problem. I was looking for any parameters of the select-string method but I didn't find a proper solution.

Any ideas?

mjolinor · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-29 12:58:06Z

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I think this might be at least close to what you want to do:

$ErrorLines = 
(Select-String D:\logs\xyz.log -pattern "error" |
Select -Expandproperty Line) -join '<br>'

answered Jul 29, 2015 at 12:58

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Tobi123 Over a year ago

This works fine, but: Before using this join, my result was like: path+line including the keyword. ex: "D:\logs\xy.log:Error:User not found." Now it's only the line content, without the path before. Any idea why? However, this is not a problem. I can print/insert the path manually as well.

Tobi123 Over a year ago

Got it. Of course I should remove the 'Expandproperty' if I want to get path, linenumber and line.

Dave Sexton · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-29 13:05:09Z

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How about formatting the output into an HTML table like so:

Select-String D:\logs\xyz.log -pattern 'error' | Select Line -ExpandProperty line | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment

answered Jul 29, 2015 at 13:05

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