Optimizing simple search script in PowerShell
- by cc0
I need to create a script to search through just below a million files of text, code, etc. to find matches and then output all hits on a particular string pattern to a CSV file.
So far I made this;
$location = 'C:\Work*'
$arr = "foo", "bar" #Where "foo" and "bar" are string patterns I want to search for (separately)
for($i=0;$i -lt $arr.length; $i++) {
Get-ChildItem $location -recurse | select-string -pattern $($arr[$i]) | select-object Path | Export-Csv "C:\Work\Results\$($arr[$i]).txt"
}
This returns to me a CSV file named "foo.txt" with a list of all files with the word "foo" in it, and a file named "bar.txt" with a list of all files containing the word "bar".
Is there any way anyone can think of to optimize this script to make it work faster? Or ideas on how to make an entirely different, but equivalent script that just works faster?
All input appreciated!
