Viewing File Content

After creating and managing files, the next essential skill is learning to inspect their contents without opening them in an editor. This section covers the PowerShell equivalents of common Linux utilities like cat, less, head, and tail.

In PowerShell, most of these functionalities are consolidated into a single, powerful cmdlet: Get-Content. By using different parameters on this one cmdlet, or by piping its output to other utilities, you can achieve the same results as the various separate tools in the Linux world. This section will break down these common scenarios.