How to read a file from specified string?

Question

For exemple, I have the following file:

...
Thu Sep 24 15:08:21 2019
SMON: enabling cache recovery
Archived Log entry 22 added for thread 1 sequence 27 ID 0xedf06523 dest 1:
Thu Sep 25 13:08:45 2019
CJQ0 started with pid=33, OS id=316
Thu Sep 26 15:13:45 2019
Starting background process SMCO
Thu Sep 26 15:13:45 2019
SMCO started with pid=19, OS id=2340
...

I need to read from my current day Thu Sep 26 13:08:45 2019.

I made this, but it bring only the lines with the date.

Get-Content $alertlog | Select-String $(Get-Date -Format "ddd MMM dd")

The result:

Thu Sep 26 15:13:45 2019
Thu Sep 26 15:13:45 2019

What I need:

Thu Sep 26 15:13:45 2019
Starting background process SMCO
Thu Sep 26 15:13:45 2019
SMCO started with pid=19, OS id=2340
...

Jared Balfour · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-26 19:47:46Z

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Just add the -Context Parameter

Get-Content $alertlog|select-string $(Get-Date -format "ddd MMM dd")  -Context 0,1

answered Sep 26, 2019 at 19:47

Jared Balfour

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3 Comments

Astora Over a year ago

Great, verry simple!

Astora Over a year ago

Isn't necessary in my case, but if I wanted to read from a specified string until other string? it's possible?

Ansgar Wiechers Over a year ago

@DaniloNeto It's possible, but not via -Context.

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