powershell remove first characters of line - powershell

I am parsing a JBOSS log file using powershell.
A typical line would being like this :
2011-12-08 09:01:07,636 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].etc..
I want to remove all the characters from character 1 until the word ERROR. So I want to remove the date and time, the coma and the number right after it. I want my lines to begin with the word ERROR and delete everything before that.
I looked on google and tried different things I have found but I struggle and can't make it work. I tried with substring and replace but can't find how to delete all characters until the word ERROR.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks a lot!

This one-liner will read the contents of your file (in the example jboss.txt) and replace every line containing ERROR by ERROR + whatever follows on that line. Finally it will save the result in processed_jboss.txt
get-content jboss.txt | foreach-object {$_ -replace "^.*?(ERROR.*)",'$1'} | out-file processed_jboss.txt

Assuming the log line is in a variable of type string this should do it:
$line = "2011-12-08 09:01:07,636 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].etc.."
$ErrorIndex = $line.indexof("Error",0)
$CleanLogLine = $Line.Substring($ErrorIndex, $line.length)
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.aspx

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I have looked at this question, and it's close to what I need to do, but the text I need to replace is inconsistent.
I need to replace "`r`n with ", but only the first of the 2 adjacent lines
example: (the full file is 50k lines and up to 500 chars wide)
ID,Name,LinkedRecords
54429,Abe,
54247,Jonathan,"
63460|63461"
54249,Teresa,
54418,Cody,
58046,Joseph,
58243,David,
,Barry,"
74330"
C8876,Simon,
X_10934,David,
should become
ID,Name,LinkedRecords
54429,Abe,
54247,Jonathan,"63460|63461"
54249,Teresa,
54418,Cody,
58046,Joseph,
58243,David,
,Barry,"74330"
C8876,Simon,
X_10934,David,
I can see this will probably be useful, but I'm having a hard time getting the command to work as desired
If the `r`n characters are literal, then you can do the following:
[System.IO.File]::ReadAllText('c:\path\file.txt') -replace '(?<=,")`r`n\r?\n' |
Set-Content c:\path\file.txt
If `r`n are actual carriage return and line feed chars, then you can do the following:
[System.IO.File]::ReadAllText('c:\path\file.txt') -replace '(?<=,")\r\n' |
Set-Content c:\path\file.txt
Note if memory becomes an issue, a different approach may be needed.

Windows Powershell- Adding to a variable in a command call

I am new to Powershell and Stack Overflow, so sorry if this an obvious question. I have searched and searched and have not found any similar questions or answers. I am trying to call a command on Powershell and changing the file name by one. Here is the line giving me trouble:
fconv -rmsd ${line}_O[int]($modeO+1).mol2 --s=${line}_A$modeA.mol2
This program takes a line of code in the format
fconv -rmsd FILE_NAME.mol2 --s=FILE_NAME.mol2
and gives a result. My problem is adding 1 to $modeO. $modeO is a number that is pulled from a file and converted to an int by using
$modeO = file.txt | Select -Index 0
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Replace first two characters of each line of a file via PowerShell

I have a file that needs to have the first two characters of each line replaced. It seems easy but those same first two characters "|0" showup elsewhere in the file. So I've ended up having the replacement strings "$bp" all over the place. Any way to just replace the first instance of "|0" for each line only? Here is the sample data:
0|Corrupt Record|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
Your question is unclear (|0 vs 0|).
You can use this snippet to replace the 2 first characters of each line if they are 0|:
$oldContent = Get-Content "my/file"
$newContent = $OldContent | ForEach-Object { $_ -replace "^0\|","newstring" }
# simpler
#$newContent = $OldContent -replace "^0\|","newstring"
$newContent | Set-Content "my/file"
I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but here is how my approach would be.
To replace just the first occurrence of "0|" and have the remaining stay you can replace it like so.
$CorruptString = "0|Corrupt Record|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0"
[regex]$ToReplace = "0\|"
$ToReplace.replace($CorruptString, "", 1)
This will Output:
Corrupt Record|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
Just a simple regex to replace the corrupt string and replace it with either nothing or whatever you wanted to replace it with. Naturally the 1 is so it only does it one time.
I believe that is what you were looking for. If not try to explain more.
EDIT: because there was some confusion with the post. To replace the first two characters in a string you can just do substring to remove the first two.
"0|Corrupt Record|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0".Substring(2)

powershell - replace line in .txt file

I am using PowerShell and I need replace a line in a .txt file.
The .txt file always has different number at the end of the line.
For example:
...............................txt (first)....................................
appversion= 10.10.1
............................txt (a second time)................................
appversion= 10.10.2
...............................txt (third)...................................
appversion= 10.10.5
I need to replace appversion + number behind it (the number is always different). I have set the required value in variable.
How do I do this?
Part of this issue you are getting, which I see from your comments, is that you are trying to replace text in a file and saved it back to the same file while you are still reading it.
I will try to show a similar solution while addressing this. Again we are going to use -replaces functionality as an array operator.
$NewVersion = "Awesome"
$filecontent = Get-Content C:\temp\file.txt
$filecontent -replace '(^appversion=.*\.).*',"`$1$NewVersion" | Set-Content C:\temp\file.txt
This regex will match lines starting with "appversion=" and everything up until the last period. Since we are storing the text in memory we can write it back to the same file. Change $NewVersion to a number ... unless that is your versioning structure.
Not sure about what numbers you are keeping
About which part of the numbers, if any, you are trying to preserve. If you intend to change the whole number then you can just .*\. to a space. That way you ignore everything after the equal sign.
Yes, you can with regex.
Let call $myString and $verNumber the variables with text and version number
$myString = "appversion= 10.10.1";
$verNumber = 7;
You can use -replace operator to get the version part and replace only last subversion number this way
$mystring -replace 'appversion= (\d+).(\d+).(\d+)', "appversion= `$1.`$2.$verNumber";

Powershell Replace 2 Spaces with 0 Spaces Accross Directory

Powershell question.
I need a command that will do a find and replace for ^ ^ (2 spaces between the hats) and replace it with ^^ (no space between the hats).
Sample data:
123456^100.00^10/14/2013^ ^^Columbus^
Want the result to be:
123456^100.00^10/14/2013^^^Columbus^
I would also like this command to perform this find and replace across all files in a given directory, say C:\SampleDirectory*.*
Any help you guys can provide would be greatly appreciated.
$string = "12456^100.00^10142013^ ^^Columbus"
$string -replace "\^\s\s\^\^","^^^"
To do it across all files just do a get-childitem and a foreach loop... Although I can't figure out how you would get a file name with slashes in it.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/03/21/use-powershell-to-replace-text-in-strings.aspx