Pau Lo

IT Professional

Albert Widjaja

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is there an easy way via powershell to scan a text/log file (they have extensions of *.log or *.txt) and it return how many rows of data there are in it? I have some gigantic txt files which I am struggling to import into excel and access (may need to look at SQL Server) but knowing the number of rows of data upfront would help.
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is there an easy way via powershell to scan a text/log file (they have extensions of *.log or *.txt) and it return how many rows of data there are in it? I have some gigantic txt files which I am struggling to import into excel and access (may need to look at SQL Server) but knowing the number of rows of data upfront would help.

powershell command for rows in a text file

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