Extract only the first 10 lines of a csv file in powershell

Question

I have csv file and want to output a new csv file, that only contains the first 10 lines form the original one. I\'ve so far only found code to delete single lines or lines that

Answer 1

Get-Content in.csv -Head 10 > out.csv

Answer 2

Get-Content "C:\start.csv" | select -First 10 | Out-File "C:\stop.csv"

That did it

Answer 3

You can also use

(Get-Content yourfile.csv)[0 .. 11]>outputfile.csv

Be sure to include the header row or you could run into issues. You can also change the numbers to get whatever rows you want. The first and head flags did not work for me.

Answer 4

Using -TotalCount parameter is recommended. Especially, if you have a big CSV file. By this way, you will only read the first 10 lines of your CSV file instead of reading all lines, selecting the first 10 lines and extracting them.

Get-Content C:\Temp\Test.csv -TotalCount 3 | Out-File C:\Temp\Test10lines.csv

This works in Powershell 2 onwards.

Answer 5

Windows PowerShell

Get-Content -First 10'C:\Users\jason\Desktop\big_file.csv'