Sunday, 9 November 2014

Get-Content:How to use Get-content to Count the Number of Lines in the File

How to use Get-content to Count the Number of Lines in the File

Get-Content is a very powerful command and you will use it very often in your script.


  • Lets say You want to see all Counte of file,type


Get-Content C:\temp\t1.txt

Where C:Temp is the folder path where the file is and t1.txt is the filename


  • Now if you want to Count the number of Files in the file then, use


(get-content c:\temp\t1.txt).count

This will give the number of Lines in the File


  • Now say you want to Pjust first 5 lines in the File, then use


(get-content c:\temp\t1.txt -totalcount 5)

This will give you the first 5 lines


Also to see only Line where Particular word is matching use the below command

get-content C:\temp\t1.txt | select-string "get-c"

This will show lines only where "get-c" matches

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