Powershell Tip #136: Read first and last byte of a file

By powershellgu | November 17, 2018

Tip: You can read the first and last byte of a file.

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

# First byte
$byte[0]

# Last byte
$byte[-1]

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

# First byte

$byte[0]

# Last byte

$byte[-1]