Loop through files in a directory using PowerShell

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How can I change the following code to look at all the .log files in the directory and not just the one file?

I need to loop through all the files and delete all lines that do not contain “step4” or “step9”. Currently this will create a new file, but I’m not sure how to use the for each loop here (newbie).

The actual files are named like this: 2013 09 03 00_01_29.log. I’d like the output files to either overwrite them, or to have the SAME name, appended with “out”.

$In = "C:\Users\gerhardl\Documents\My Received Files\Test_In.log"
$Out = "C:\Users\gerhardl\Documents\My Received Files\Test_Out.log"
$Files = "C:\Users\gerhardl\Documents\My Received Files\"

Get-Content $In | Where-Object {$_ -match 'step4' -or $_ -match 'step9'} | `
Set-Content $Out

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