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

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 contain a certain word. Its probably a 15 character one-liner, but I am not sure how to approach this, any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't expect you to write code, just the right command would help me out.


Get-Content "C:\start.csv" | select -First 10 | Out-File "C:\stop.csv"

That did it


Get-Content in.csv -Head 10 > out.csv

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.


You can also use

(Get-Content yourfile.csv)[0 .. 11]>outputfile.csv

Be sure to include the header row or you could run into issues. You can also change the numbers to get whatever rows you want. The first and head flags did not work for me.