[Update from Brad Wilson and Scott Dukes]
I've been wanting a powershell script to replace my favorite unix command for ages, and I took a stab at it today. This got me very close to what I wanted yesterday, which was just the names of files where the matches occurred.
get-childitem -include foo.* -recurse | where-object { get-content $_ | select-string find_me }
Scott Dukes pointed out that select-string would take the FileInfo object that was passed to it and search through the contents for the string file_me, and this would give me the exact same kind of output my unix command used to. Thanks, Scott! This command was exactly what I needed.
Brad went way past this and showed some very interesting other changes to the script to do some cool things.
Thanks again to both of them for correcting this PowerShell newbie. I've been a long-time Unix scripting weenie, with bash code flowing out my fingertips at will (in XEmacs of course :)), but I think PowerShell just blows that away.
-- bab