Query a Word within Lines of Files Recursively?

What you're wanting to do is exactly the type of thing a desktop search tool is designed for.  You may want to download a trial of a DTS (I've used and am happy with Copernic) and try it out.  After installing the DTS you configure it to index volumes/shares on your network.  Give it a day or so to construct a complete index and then perform key word searches.  It will find matches in most file types.

To do the same thing via a script would require a decent amount of work I'd imagine.  You'd need to open each file in each directory.  Opening the file in its appropriate application wouldn't be too much of a problem but searching for key words within the file will require you to identify the application and use automation to perform the search.  I could be wrong though.

OM Gang

@ marahman3001 - Can you please add a line so I can export the results to a csv file? Thank you.

$search = read-host "enter search word"
$files = Get-ChildItem c:\support\shutdown\*.*
foreach ($file in $files)
{

$contents = Get-Content $file | Out-String
if($contents.contains($search))
 {
    Add-content -path c:\temp\result.csv -value "Found $search in $file"
  }
}

@ThomasMcA2 - Does Locate32 find text or data within files? or just names of files?

@marahman3001 - Thank you for the response but the script does not query the files recurisvely...Also how can Iresume when there is a permission denied error? Thanks again!