PowerShell Issue with Get-Content

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Jade picture Jade · Oct 1, 2014 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

I have an issue. When I run a command:

powershell -command "gc C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQLServer\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG -totalcount 5

There is an error:

"Get-Content : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Files\Microsoft'. At line:1 char:3 + gc <<<< C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG -to talcount 5 + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-Content], ParameterBindingException +FullyQualifiedErrorId:PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetContentCommand"

Can you help me with that?

Answer

Jente picture Jente · Oct 1, 2014

Always put your path between quotes when it contains spaces.

Get-Content -Path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQLServer\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG" -TotalCount 5

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