Powershell Tip #52: Count the number of lines of a file

By powershellgu | October 6, 2015

Tip: You can easily count the number of lines of a file that way :

Get-Content -Path $file | Measure-Object -Line

1	Get-Content -Path $file \| Measure-Object -Line

There are also other switch parameters we can use to count the number of words or characters for example.