Print the first 100 lines of big_file.csv:
Get-Content -First 100 'C:\Users\jason\Desktop\big_file.csv'
Print the last 100 lines of big_file.csv
Get-Content -Last 100 'C:\Users\jason\Desktop\big_file.csv'
Print lines that contain the word "Utah"
Get-Content 'C:\Users\jason\Desktop\big_file.csv' | Select-String "Utah"
Get the first 100 lines of big_file.csv and write them to a new file, sample.csv
Get-Content -First 100 'C:\Users\jason\Desktop\big_file.csv' | Out-File 'C:\Users\jason\Desktop\sample.csv'
Count the number of lines in big_file.csv (3 separate commands)
Note that we tell the PowerShell to count in chunks of 2,000 rows
$count = 0
Get-Content '.\big_file.csv' -ReadCount 2000 | foreach { $Count += \(_.count }
\)count