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Windows Powershell - Extract top N lines from file to a new file
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ps_text_file_utilities
*Extract n lines to a new file;
gc -path file_name.csv - head N > output.txt
*Get the number of lines in a text file;
Get-Content "Path to file"| Measure-Object -Line
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