When you type this command, it opens the file for the reading and when file read is successful, it closes the file.
Write: Allows the opening file for the writing until the file is closed.Įxamples Example #1: Use the Get-Content to open and read the file.
ReadWrite Allows the opening file for reading and writing until the file is closed.
Read: Allows the opening file for the reading until the file is closed.
Inheritable: Makes the files are inheritable.
We will provide description about FileShare here. String, FileMode, and FileAccess is explained earlier. Data can be written and read from the file.
ReadWrite: Read and write access to the file.
When the file is truncated so that its size should be zero bytes.įileMode: As explained in the previous syntax.įileAccess: Below are the FileAccess methods.
Truncate: Specifies that the operating system should open an existing file.
If the file exists, it will open a new file otherwise it will create a new file.
OpenOrCreate: Specifies if the operating system should open a file.
Open: Specifies that the Operating System will open a file if exist, otherwise it will throw an exception.
CreateNew: Specifies that the Operating System will create a new file and if exists it will throw an exception.
Create: Specifies that the Operating system will create a new file and if exists it will overwrite the file and should be used with the FileMode.Create permission.
This requires to append permission FileMode.Append and can only be used with FileAccess.Write.
Append: Opens a file if exists or creates a new file.
String: It is the path of the file to open its content.įileMode: Below is the file modes used by the File System. While using the System.IO namespace with PowerShell, we can use its class File and its methods Open() as shown in the syntax. When we use the Get-Content method, we can read the file from the path we specify, and when we read the file by default PowerShell command opens up a file and read the content of the file. System.IO.StreamReader(“FilePath”) How does the open file command work in PowerShell? Opens the file from the path specified with the specified file mode, file access rights, and the specified sharing option. Open(String, FileMode, FileAccess, FileShare) Opens the file from the specified path with the various file modes and file access method.Ĭ.
Opens the file from the specified path with the various FileModes, explained later.