The above code will output those lines that have the word “error” in them. $stream_reader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader This will display the second line, and so on. When you want to read the file to understand its contents, you’d have to do so one line at a time and the good news is, this is possible with PowerShell. Likewise, we can read the last few lines too: $file_data = Get-Content C:\logs\log01012020.txt You can display the contents of this variable or use it for more processing. Similar to a SQL query, you can choose the lines you want to read and the code for that is: $file_data = Get-Content C:\logs\log01012020.txtĪs the code suggests, the first 10 lines of the content will be stored in the variable and not the entire content. Many times, you may only have to read a certain part of a file to get the information you want. You can now use this variable $file_data for parsing or further processing. You can also move all the content to a variable and use that variable for further processing if that’s something that you want your code to do. When you execute this command, the contents of this file will be displayed in your command prompt or the PowerShell ISE screen, depending on where you execute it. Here is the code that allows you to do this:
When you want to read the entire contents of a text file, the easiest way is to use the built-in Get-Content function.
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