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Read Text Files Faster than Get-Content

This was a fun little script I threw together after a particular conversation came up at Spiceworks.  If you’ve worked with PowerShell long you’ve used Get-Content to read a file.  99% of the time, it’s fine and you just continue on with life.  This blog post is about that 1% when Get-Content is SLOW.  The .NET IO.Streamreader is where people turn to speed things up so I decided to create a  function around it that worked much like Get-Content does.  This is it’s story.

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June 1, 2015 Posted by Martin9700 | Powershell - Performance | Functions, Get-Content, performance, StreamReader | Leave a comment