Using Windows Command Prompt to read last 10 lines of a text file

Question

Can anyone please advise how to use Windows Command Prompt to read last 10 lines of a text file?

Possible duplicate of [How do you loop through each line in a text file using a windows batch file?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/155932/how-do-you-loop-through-each-line-in-a-text-file-using-a-windows-batch-file) — Stavm, Jun 16 '17 at 07:49
Possible duplicate of [CMD.EXE batch script to display last 10 lines from a txt file](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/523181/cmd-exe-batch-script-to-display-last-10-lines-from-a-txt-file) — Compo, Jun 16 '17 at 09:31

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '17 at 13:36

One way is to use PowerShell.

powershell -NoProfile -Command "Get-Content .\rrreg.ps1 | Select-Object -Last 3"

Iterating across each line can also be done.

FOR /F "usebackq tokens=*" %%s IN (`powershell -NoProfile -Command "Get-Content .\rrreg.ps1 | Select-Object -Last 3"`) DO (
    ECHO %%s
)

Of course, having a tail command on your system would make tail -10 thefile.txt possible. How much easier can it be than that?

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