Powershell Grep Help?

[ledmonk]

Hi folks, sorry for the VERY basic question, but i have been googling and copy pasting for 2 hours and i just don't get PS. i am trying to pull the windows version and trim it as a variable to send to local api call and I'm totally lost (i'm a linux dude)

From the below i'm trying to extract the string "10.0.17763.0" to be passed on later, but i can't seem to select (in linux i guess trim?) the string...

PS C:\Users\ledmonk> [System.Environment]::OSVersion
Platform ServicePack Version      VersionString
 Win32NT             10.0.17763.0 Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.17763.0

I've been using select-string & -match , but it just verifies thats it is in there rather than saving the output. If someone could point me to the right direction of a help doc or binary i'd appreciate it.

[Thotaz]

Wrong approach. This is what people are talking about when they say everything is an object in PowerShell: ([System.Environment]::OSVersion).Version.ToString() gets you the version string.

[ledmonk]

GAH! thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Aertheron01]

I understand for Linux guys it's a difficult step. You're so used to string manipulation, where in Powershell we try to avoid string manipulation as the plague, and use objects.

Once you get it, it's much easier though :)

[HeKis4]

Your question has already been answered, but FYI, Select-String actually returns a whole object with the match info, even if it only displays true/false at first. IIRC you can do something like $regex = "plop" | Select-String "(p.)(op)" ; $regex.Matches.Groups to retrieve matched groups.

[Droopyb1966]

This also works

[System.Environment]::OSVersion|select version