How to get list of all programs on system PATH that countain some characters in powershell/batch

Question

• So, i want to make a builder file for my C code, i use Clang compiler and wanted to link the Windows SDK's headers and make it multiplatform, so even VS 2015 is supported.
• I thought the easiest and best way will be to just find the programs that contain "developer prompt for VS", how can i do that in powershell script? Also, is there any more efficient way?

I use Windows 11, Windows 11 SDK, clang last version, powershell 7/5.1, Visual Studio Build tools 2022

Answer 1

This script will search folders listed in the path variable.

$Search4 = "Microsoft.Windows.WinSqm"           # Look for this character string
$PathFolders = $env:path.split(";")
foreach ($Folder in $PathFolders) {
    "Analyzing folder $Folder"
    if (Test-Path $Folder) {
        $Files = Get-ChildItem -Path $Folder -File 
        foreach ($F in $Files) {
            $Data = Select-String -Path $F.FullName -Pattern $Search4 -Encoding unicode -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
            if ($Data) {
                "Unicode found in {0}" -f $f.FullName
            } else {
                $Data = Select-String -Path $F.FullName -Pattern $Search4 -Encoding ascii -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
                if ($Data) {
                   "ASCII found in {0}" -f $f.FullName
                }
            }
        }
    } else {
        "Folder does not exist."
    }
}