Extract only the first 10 lines of a csv file in powershell

Question

I have csv file and want to output a new csv file, that only contains the first 10 lines form the original one. I\'ve so far only found code to delete single lines or lines that

Answer 1

Using -TotalCount parameter is recommended. Especially, if you have a big CSV file. By this way, you will only read the first 10 lines of your CSV file instead of reading all lines, selecting the first 10 lines and extracting them.

Get-Content C:\Temp\Test.csv -TotalCount 3 | Out-File C:\Temp\Test10lines.csv

This works in Powershell 2 onwards.