{"id":76121,"date":"2016-01-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2016\/01\/20\/powertip-use-powershell-to-return-first-two-lines-of-file\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:20:12","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-return-first-two-lines-of-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-return-first-two-lines-of-file\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to return first two lines of file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to return the first two lines of a text file.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily return the first two lines of a text file?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Content<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the&nbsp;<b>TotalCount<\/b>&nbsp;parameter. In this example,&nbsp;<b>TotalCount<\/b>&nbsp;is set<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to 2 and the file is named AMoreComplete.txt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Content &#8216;C:\\fso\\AMoreComplete.txt&#8217; -TotalCount 2<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/dr_scripto-102x150.gif\" alt=\" \"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to return the first two lines of a text file. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily return the first two lines of a text file? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Content&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the&nbsp;TotalCount&nbsp;parameter. In this example,&nbsp;TotalCount&nbsp;is set&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to 2 and the file is named AMoreComplete.txt: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,4,14,45],"class_list":["post-76121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-text-files","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to return the first two lines of a text file. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily return the first two lines of a text file? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Content&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the&nbsp;TotalCount&nbsp;parameter. In this example,&nbsp;TotalCount&nbsp;is set&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to 2 and the file is named AMoreComplete.txt: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}