Get a line number on Powershell?

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Select-String returns the line number for you. You're just looking at the wrong property. Change your code to:

$search="Mustard"$linenumber= Get-Content thing.txt | select-string $search$linenumber.LineNumber

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For people who are searching for one liner, code is self explanatory.

Get-Content .\myTextFile.txt | Select-String -Pattern "IamSearching" | Select-Object LineNumber

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Try insert -Path after Get-Content

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