The Get-Content cmdlet is used to read the content from a file at a specified location using PowerShell. It reads line by line and returns the collection of objects.
Get-Content -Path "path to the file"
We need to pass the Path to a file as a mandatory parameter. It also accepts the following other parameters:
TotalCount: This is used to limit the number of lines Get-Content returns.Tail: This is used to get the last line of the file.This cmdlet returns a collection of objects, each representing a line of content in the file.
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In the above code snippet, we read the content of the file data.txt using the cmdlet Get-Content on line 2.