Powershell Tip #84: Retrieve a random name from a file

By powershellgu | December 3, 2015

Tip: In my FAQ Spanish I have been asked how to retrieve a random name from a text file which contains names separated by comma.

There are several ways to do that, but I prefer to take advantage of the -InputObject parameter instead of piping to Get-Random.

Get-Random -InputObject $((Get-Content -Path ‘C:\nombres.txt’) -split ‘,’)

1	Get-Random -InputObject $((Get-Content -Path ‘C:\nombres.txt’) -split ‘,’)

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