Select-Object omitting output from Select-String powershell

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I wrote a Powershell script that looks for a string (such as ERROR) in log files and grabs those lines and outputs those lines to a file, for simpler reading and such (the industry I'm in has VERY large log files), but I'm having an issue. Before, when the (relevant) part of the code looked like this:

Select-String -Path "$file" -Pattern "$string" -CaseSensitive | Out-File -filepath $filepath

It would output the file path, the line number, and then the actual line, making for a very cluttered file. Well I only needed the line and the line number, so I did this:

Select-String -Path "$file" -Pattern "$string" -CaseSensitive | Select-Object -Property LineNumber,Line | Out-File -filepath $filepath

Which would return lines looking like this:

978 2017-07-10 10:46:11,288 ERROR [Music...

That is the line number then the line, with the line only totaling 35 characters.
Before I piped Select-String to Select-Object, the script would output the whole line, but now with Select-Object it omits some output. I tried adding -verbose parameters to both Select-String and Select-Object, but that did nothing.

ClumsyPuffin · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-12 05:13:42Z

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Can you try this :

Select-String -Path "test.xml" -Pattern "ERROR" -CaseSensitive | ft -Property LineNumber,Line -Wrap  | Out-File -FilePath c:\out.txt

The reason for your problem is screen buffer length(increasing powershell screen buffer width) ,you can change it as well but the above snippet is simpler and effective

answered Jul 12, 2017 at 5:13

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Adam McGurk Over a year ago

That's awesome! The screen buffer thing didn't occur to me and I will look into expanding it, but write now piping it into a table and wrapping the words works! Thanks!

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