get-help not working on FIND command

Hello PowerShell Users,

I'm trying the following:

get-alias find
get-help find

and getting an error message "Get-Alias: Cannot find alias because alias 
'find' does not exist"

But, when I just type FIND I get the following: "FIND: Parameter format not

correct"

How would I use FIND in PowerShell or is there another cmdlet which does the 
same thing?

Thanks,

Jeff Jensen

Hi Jeff,
You can get FIND's help just as you would from CMD like this:

find /?

You can see which commands are available with Get-Command, or its alias gcm:
gcm find

...and get more info by piping Get-Command's output to Format-List, or its alias
fl:
gcm find | fl *

When searching for text with FIND from PowerShell the tricky part is passing the
"string" to search for, you can...

# assign the "string" to a variable
$str = 'Installed file'
find /i $str $env:windir\DirectX.log

# escape the double quotes:
find /i `"Installed file`" $env:windir\DirectX.log

# wrap the double-quoted "string" in single quotes:
find /i '"Installed file"' C:\Windows\DirectX.log

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PowerShell's more powerful version of FIND is Select-String. For help on it:

help Select-String

-- 
Kiron

On Apr 15, 9:26 pm, Jeffery Jensen
<JefferyJen...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hello PowerShell Users,
>
> I'm trying the following:
>
> get-alias find
> get-help find
>
> and getting an error message "Get-Alias: Cannot find alias because
alias
> 'find' does not exist"
>
> But, when I just type FIND I get the following: "FIND: Parameter
format not
> correct"
>
> How would I use FIND in PowerShell or is there another cmdlet which does
the
> same thing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Jensen

This command will look for all of the .exe files off of c:\temp and
recurse into the subdirectories:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse c:\temp *.exe

You can get fancy and pipe it to sort-object like so to list the
largest files first:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse c:\temp *.exe | Sort-Object length -descending

The following are aliases to Get-ChildItem:
gci, ls, dir

Take care,