PowerShell get number of lines of big (large) file

Question

One of the ways to get number of lines from a file is this method in PowerShell:

PS C:\\Users\\Pranav\\Desktop\\PS_Test_Scripts> $a=Get-Content .\\sub.ps1         


        

Answer 1

MS DOS command FIND : $fileName = 'C:\dirname\filename.txt'
CMD /C ('find /v /c "" "' + $fileName + '"')
Other variations on the find command can be found on the docs.