Windows equivalent of the 'tail' command

Question

Is there a way to simulate the *nix tail command on the Windows command line? I have a file and I want a way to snip off the first n lines of text. For example:

Answer 1

As a contemporary answer, if running Windows 10 you can use the "Linux Subsystem for Windows".

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

This will allow you to run native linux commands from within windows and thus run tail exactly how you would in linux.

Answer 2

I don't think there is way out of the box. There is no such command in DOS and batch files are far to limited to simulate it (without major pain).

Answer 3

in PS try to use command:

Select -Last 1

This command can be pipelined also.

Example to get first line:

type .\out.txt | Select -Last 1

or to get the first line:

 type .\out.txt | Select -First 1