We all knew it was a great idea. It turns out that the military thought the same. Via Mark Steyn.
Powershell’s Select-String
One major disadvantage for Windows administrators is that they don't get by default the same breadth of administrative tools which appear on pretty much any UNIX server. One of these is grep. There is a reasonable equivalent for one of the most common grep features---searching within text files for a particular regular expression. You can…