If you are working as an admin on Windows Core Server and want to check the contents of a file, you can execute the following command:
get-content C:\testfile.txt
This command will display the contents of theĀ file using PowerShell. To save the contents in a variable, you can execute:
$FileContent = get-content C:\testfile.txt
To read the first few lines (I suppose the first five lines of the file here) you can use a for-each loop statement.
$filecontent = Get-Content info.txt for( $i=0; $i -lt 5; $i++ ) { Write-Host $filecontent[$i] }
The above script loops through the first 5 lines of the file that we loaded via Get-Content commands and prints them on the terminal.