[ACCEPTED]-powershell to get the first x MB of a file-powershell

Accepted answer

Score: 15

Get-Content foo.exe -TotalCount 1MB -Encoding byte

If you happen to be using PowerShell Community Extensions then do this:

Format-Hex foo.exe -count 1MB

Note: If 2 you are using PowerShell V2 be sure to grab 1 the 1.2 beta of PSCX.

Score: 3

Independent of PowerShell, I'd just use 3 the head command. (It's a standard Unix command, but 2 it's available for Windows.) The -c option lets you specify the number 1 of bytes you want.

head -c 1024 foo.exe

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