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How to retrieve a specific number of lines from files in PowerShell?
To retrieve the specific number of lines from the beginning or the end of the file, you first need to get the content of the file using Get-Content and then need to pipeline the -First for retrieving the number of files from the beginning and -Last to retrieve the number of lines from the bottom.
Check the below example of retrieving the content of the first 10 lines.
Example
Get-Content D:\Temp\PowerShellaliases.txt -First 10
Output
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-Content D:\Temp\PowerShellaliases.txt -First 10 CommandType Name Version Source ----------- ---- ------- ------ Alias % -> ForEach-Object Alias ? -> Where-Object Alias ac -> Add-Content Alias asnp -> Add-PSSnapin Alias cat -> Get-Content Alias cd -> Set-Location Alias CFS -> ConvertFrom-String 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
To get the content of the last 10 lines from the file.
Example
Get-Content D:\Temp\PowerShellaliases.txt -Last 10
Output
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-Content D:\Temp\PowerShellaliases.txt -Last 10 Alias swmi -> Set-WmiInstance Alias tee -> Tee-Object Alias trcm -> Trace-Command Alias type -> Get-Content Alias wget -> Invoke-WebRequest Alias where -> Where-Object Alias wjb -> Wait-Job Alias write -> Write-Output
Updated on: 16-Mar-2020
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