Windows - Display File Contents

​Viewing the contents of a file in ​PowerShell is simple using the cat command, ​which stands for concatenate. Let’s give it a try.       ​This will dump the contents of the file into our shell. ​This isn’t the best solution for a file, ​since it just keeps writing ​the content until the whole file is displayed. ​If we want to view the contents ​of the file one page at a time, ​we can use the more command like this.    The Enter key advances the file by one line. ​You can use this if you ​want to move slowly through the file. ​Space advances the file by one page.

The Q key allows you to ​quit out of more and go back to your shell. ​If we want to leave the more command ​and go back to our shell, ​we can just hit the Q key.

Let’s say we want to quickly see what ​the first few lines of a text file are.  ​We don’t really want to open up the whole file. ​Instead, we just want to get ​a glimpse of what the document is. ​This is called the head of the file. ​To do this, we can go back to ​cat and add the dash head parameter. ​This will show us the first 10 lines of a file.