You also don't technically need to go through Select-String if all you care about is the line itself: (gc file.txt) -match "Pattern" | Out-File t.txt Comp

You also don't technically need to go through Select-String if all you care about is the line itself: (gc file.txt) -match "Pattern" | Out-File t.txt Comparison operators that get an array as their left argument return the items where the comparison returns true.