I have a unix command that does the following:
head -c 2048 > test.txt
basically its taking first 2kb of the test.txt file.
Can we do something similar in windows cmd prompt?
Windows Equivalent of the ‘head -c’ command
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I have a unix command that does the following:
head -c 2048 > test.txt
basically its taking first 2kb of the test.txt file.
Can we do something similar in windows cmd prompt?
Best Answer
Simplifying this answer because of @chubbsondubs' comment.
-TotalCountwill count lines if reading in text, so always force it to read the file as bytes, then the-TotalCountwill only refer to bytes and you can get an account count.More information here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/888063/powershell-to-get-the-first-x-mb-of-a-file