Powershell script editing config file

user318192 · 2019-03-13T14:56:39.000Z

HI,

I am trying to create a powershell script that will do the following:

on this location c:\progfiles\nameofthesoftware\servicename.exe.config

Open the file and remove this line , save the file and close

this will need to be done on 200 servers.

any help woul be great.

Thank You

Neally · 2019-03-13T17:28:21.000Z

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edwineekelaers2 · 2019-03-13T17:49:47.000Z

Something like that and all time it took me to google it is 5 seconds.

Get-Content C:\new\temp_*.txt | Select-String -pattern "H|159" -notmatch | Out-File C:\new\newfile.txt

Evan7191 · 2019-03-14T12:47:25.000Z

Edwin_Eekelaers:

Something like that and all time it took me to google it is 5 seconds.
Get-Content C:\new\temp_*.txt | Select-String -pattern "H|159" -notmatch | Out-File C:\new\newfile.txt

If you want to overwrite the existing file, you would need the -Force parameter for Out-File.

Get-Content C:\new\temp_*.txt | Select-String -pattern "H|159" -notmatch | Out-File C:\new\temp_.txt -Force

edwineekelaers2 · 2019-03-14T12:58:33.000Z

I prefer to rename the original and then do the edit on a new result in case of f’ups