Powershell Tip #135: Read file as a byte array

By powershellgu | November 17, 2018

Tip: You can read the content of a file as a byte array.

# Solution 1
Get-Content -Path 'C:\Demo\test.txt' -Encoding Byte

# Solution 2
[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes('C:\Demo\test.txt')

# Solution 1

Get-Content -Path 'C:\Demo\test.txt' -Encoding Byte

# Solution 2

[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes('C:\Demo\test.txt')