Search for chocolatey local package and get result as powershell object

Question

Is there any function to use instead of using this command in powershell script?

choco search --local-only $package.name

The function needs to return a list/array of objects with name and version if they exist, I want to use that in a powershell script.

Executing this command only returns an array of strings which is not clean to use

choco search --local-only $package.name

Thank you for any help.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '19 at 09:38

One suggestion would be to use the Chocolatey PowerShell Module which you can find here:

This will return a PowerShell Object for the results of a search, which you can then enumerate, filter, etc as required.

Matthew · Answer 2 · 2019-09-16T09:54:18.047

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Install-Module -Name chocolatey

Import-Module -Name chocolatey

This would be what you're looking for

edited Sep 16 '19 at 09:54

answered Sep 16 '19 at 09:38

Matthew

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