View text file contents from remote machine?

Question

_{Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:19 PM}

Is there a powershell cmdlet to let me look at a log/text file on a remote machine?

thanks

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_{Friday, April 18, 2014 12:34 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi,

As long as you have access to the file, you can use Get-Content and the UNC path:

Get-Content \\ComputerName\c$\Folder\File.txt

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_{Friday, April 18, 2014 7:33 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi Scott_m,

In addition, if you can try to remote access with powershell remote seesion, you can try the cmdlet Enter-Pssession, for example server1 remote to server2:

Run the cmdlet below on server 2 to configure the server to receive remote access:

Enable-PSRemoting -Force

Then run the script below on server1 to bulid the remote session:

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName server2 #remote to server2

Get-ChildItem c:\windows\logs\*.log -Recurse #filter the log files under the folder "c:\windows\logs" 
Get-Content C:\windows\logs\cbs\hahaha.log #read log file

I hope this helps.