"Hayato Iriumi" <hiriumi@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi, Bob.
> Quote:
>> 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. Ideally, the team could add an "offset" parameter to Get-Content to allow
this use case. You should suggest it on
http://connect.microsoft.com.
--
Keith