Get-Content - PowerShell 1.0
Microsoft Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting tool based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is designed for system administrators, engineers and developers to control and automate the administration of Windows and applications.
More than hundred command-line tools (so called "cmdlets") can be used to perform system administration tasks and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). These cmdlets are easy to use, with standard naming conventions and common parameters, and standard tools for piping, sorting, filtering, and formatting data and objects.
Get-Content
Description
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Usage
Options
-path string
The paths to the items from which content is to be retrieved.
Wildcards are permitted.
-literalPath string
Like Path above, only the value is used exactly as typed.
No characters are interpreted as wildcards. If the path includes any
escape characters then enclose the path in single quotation marks.
-totalCount long
Number of lines of content are retrieved. The default is -1 (a
ll lines).
-readCount long
Send n lines of content through the pipeline at a time.
The default 0, sends all of the content at once.
A low value for ReadCount will return the first line quickly,
to minimise the total time for the operation choose a high value.
-include string
Retrieve only the specified items from the Path.
Wildcards are permitted. e.g. "*.txt"
-exclude string
Omit the specified items from the Path
Wildcards are permitted. e.g. "*.log"
-filter string
A filter in the provider's format or language.
The exact syntax of the filter (wildcard support etc) depends on the provider.
Filters are more efficient than -include/-exclude, because the provider
applies the filter when retrieving the objects, rather than having
PowerShell filter the objects after they are retrieved.
-force
Override restrictions that prevent the command from succeeding, apart
from security settings. e.g. Force will create file path directories
or override a files read-only attribute, but will not change file permissions.
-credential PSCredential
Present a user/password credential to validate access to the file.
This is not yet supported in any Windows PowerShell core commands.
-encoding fsCmdEncoding
The character encoding for this content(PowerShell FileSystem provider only.)
Values: Unknown, string, Unicode, Byte, BigEndianUnicode, UTF8, UTF7, Ascii.
CommonParameters:
-Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutVariable.
Example(s)
Display the content of a file on the console (via the pipeline):
PS C:\>get-content -Path C:\myFile.txt
Get the first 50 lines from one file and write into another file:
PS C:\>get-content c:\Logs\BigLogfile.txt -totalcount 50 | set-content c:\Logs\top50.txt