PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

1. Create a dummy file at ~/random. This script uses the code repository of the book as the location.
2. If you would like, create the file yourself using the following script block:

PS> for ($j = 0; $j -lt 100; $j++) { $($i = 0; while ($i -lt 8) { (-join ((65..90) + (97..122) | Get-Random -Count 8 | ForEach-Object { [char]$_ })).ToString(); $i++ }) -join ' ' | Out-File ./ch10/01-random-text.txt -Append }

3. Next, use the following script to get the necessary details:

Write-Host "File details:" Get-Item ./ch10/01-random-text.txt "Here are the first seven lines from the file." Get-Content ./ch10/01-random-text.txt -ReadCount 7 | Select-Object -First 1 "Here are the last five lines from the file." Get-Content ...