Question

I have a script I am working on that will output all fileNames and lineNumbers of a key word search.

$Paths = gci . *.* -rec | where { ! $_.PSIsContainer } | resolve-path
foreach($path in $Paths)
{
    $ftp += Select-String -Path $Path -Pattern "FTP"
}
$ftpgroups = $ftp | select fileName,LineNumber | Format-Table -groupBy Filename

I decided to go with ft -groupby because group-object was not working correctly. But I need a way to reference this table so I can put it into a csv. When using the get-member commandlet it only gives me properties of formating. The ideal output for this is to have 1 fileName matched up to a group of fileLines. That way I can match that up to the path (which group-object worked succesfully on).
I am open to new ideas if I am going about this the wrong way. Thank you in advanced, hope it doesn’t cause you as much trouble as it has me.

Answer 1

As you have found, the output of any of the Format-* cmdlets is formatting objects. These objects are meant for display to the console and not further manipulation. You really need Group-Object for this. In what way wasn’t it working for you? I would think, this would work:

$ftpgroups = $ftp | Select Filename,LineNumber | Group Filename