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Select-String with .ppt files

Answered Select-String with .ppt files

  • Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:59 AM
     
     
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    Hey Scripting Guy!

    This is a basic question, but has me stumped. I have trawled the web for the uses of 'select-string' and everywhere says I can use it to search for text in: .doc, .xls, .ppt, .txt etc. Now I can get it to work no probs with .doc files, but when I point it at .ppt files I get no results...??? Below is a basic version of what im trying to acheive. I dummed it down to see if it would work in its basic form and no joy...what am I doing wrong?! The target powerpoint file has a slide with the word alpha as a title. Help Pls!


    # PowerShell cmdlet to find the word "alpha". 
    $Location = "c:\scripts\testppt1.ppt"
    $SearchStr = "alpha"
    $Sel = Select-String  -pattern $SearchStr -path $Location 
    If ($Sel -eq $null)
    {
        write-host "$Location does not contain $SearchStr"
    }
    Else 
    {
        write-host "Found `n$Sel"
    } 

    Write-host "end"

     

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  • Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3:10 AM
     
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    Typical...I spend all that time trying to figure it out and the moment I post on here I figure out what the issue is!

    I forgot that I renamed a .pptx file to .ppt (a test file) and that seems to be causing the issue. I created a new file from scratch in .ppt format and select-string works.

    thanks anyway

     
  • Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:34 AM
     
     
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    If you want to search for text inside a .docx, .xlsx or .pptx - I would suggest you look at the project Power Tools for Open XML over at Codeplex
    http://powertools.codeplex.com/

    Their Select-OpenXMLString command has similar functionality for OOXML documents:
    http://openxmldeveloper.org/wiki/w/wiki/powertools-for-open-xml-2-0-cmdlets.aspx

    Best Regards
    Claus Codam
    Consultant, Developer
    Coretech - Blog



    • Edited by Claus Codam Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:37 AM grammar
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