While Windows provides similar capabilities out-of-the-box with PowerShell, most Linux users will undoubtedly be familiar with the grep command:
> grep --help Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERNS [FILE]... Search for PATTERNS in each FILE. Example: grep -i 'hello world' menu.h main.c PATTERNS can contain multiple patterns separated by newlines. GNU grep home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/> General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Fortunately, there is a cross-platform grep like equivalent for Windows (and MacOS/Linux) called ripgrep:
PS> ripgrep --help ripgrep 14.1.0 (rev e50df40a19) Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> ripgrep (rg) recursively searches the current directory for lines matching a regex pattern. 'By default, ripgrep will respect gitignore rules and automatically skip hidden files/directories and binary file Use -h for short descriptions and --help for more details. Project home page: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
After installing to a location in your PATH, I also recommend creating a symlink so you can use simply type the command grep rather than ripgrep (this may require admin to create depending on your Windows settings):
New-Item -Type SymbolicLink -Path grep.exe -Target rg.exe
Alternatively, you can create a PowerShell alias using Set-Alias command.