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Gets the content of the item at the specified location.
Get-Content [-LiteralPath] <string[]> [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-Exclude <string[]>] [-Filter <string>] [-Force] [-Include <string[]>] [-Read
Count <Int64>] [-TotalCount <Int64>] [-UseTransaction] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-Content [-Path] <string[]> [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-Exclude <string[]>] [-Filter <string>] [-Force] [-Include <string[]>] [-ReadCount <
Int64>] [-TotalCount <Int64>] [-UseTransaction] [<CommonParameters>]
The Get-Content cmdlet gets the content of the item at the location specified by the path, such as the text in a file. It reads the content one l
ine at a time and returns an object for each line.
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-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------
C:\PS>get-content -Path C:\Chapters\chapter1.txt
Description
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This command displays the content of the Chapter1.txt file on the console. It uses the Path parameter to specify the name of the item. Get-Conten
t actually passes the content down the pipeline, but because there are no other pipeline elements, the content is formatted and displayed on the
console.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------
C:\PS>get-content c:\Logs\Log060912.txt -totalcount 50 | set-content sample.txt
Description
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This command gets the first 50 lines of the Log060912.txt file and stores them in the sample.txt file. The command uses the Get-Content cmdlet to
get the text in the file. (The name of Path parameter, which is optional, is omitted.) The TotalCount parameter limits the retrieval to the firs
t 50 lines. The pipeline operator (|) sends the result to Set-Content, which places it in the sample.txt file.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------
C:\PS>(get-content cmdlets.txt -totalcount 5)[-1]
Description
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This command gets the fifth line of the Cmdlets.txt text file. It uses the TotalCount parameter to get the first five lines and then uses array n
otation to get the last line (indicated by "-1") of the resulting set.