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Powershell: head and tail command

Use head or tail to skim the first or last 5 lines.

Show the first 5 lines

Get-Content filename -head 5

Show the last 5 lines

Get-Content filename -tail 5

Keep monitoring the last 5 lines

Get-Content filename -tail 5 -wait
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