Hi, Bob.
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> I've also wanted the last M liines in a file while this may not do exactly
> that for practical purposes its much faster than reading the entire file just
> to return the last 10 lines.
I guess it depends on what kind of text file you have. I personally
think it's safer to return certain number of bytes rather than number
of lines because the text file could be an XML file that has only one
line. In that case, you would be reading the entire file.
I was thinking... Maybe I could make this a custom Cmdlet. Hmm... but
it may be worth it because you can accomplish this in such a small
amount of effort accessing .NET Framework. I hope PowerShell team will
include this kind of Cmdlet in the next release.