Using power shell to retrieve contents in a txt file - powershell

Question

I am trying to write a powershell script which will return the contents inside a txt file. However, I do not want to specify the drive of the txt file as the txt file will be placed in the same folder as the powershell script.
I am using this line of code:
get-content .\document.txt | select -first 1 -skip 1
but it doesnt work.
Inside document.txt:
This is the first line
This is the second line
What script do I write to retrieve the second line "This is the second line" without having to put the full path like "C:\Data\Scripts\Document.txt"? I have searched online solution but many solutions required me having to put its destination path.

Answer 1

get-content $PSScriptRoot\document.txt | select -first 1 -skip 1
Note that $PSScriptRoot will only have a value when the script is executing, but it will represent the path of where the script resides.

Answer 2

I may not understand question correctly but you can display the content of the text file by
cat <yourfile.name>
if you want to get the part of the text file you can do
cat <yourfile.name> | Select-String '<text you want to get>'
you can refer to this site on how to manipulate the output https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/reference/5.1/microsoft.powershell.utility/select-string
and if ever you want to run the script in Bash you need different script if ever

Answer 3

If you are looking for the second line then use the below:
By default, each line will be an index of an array. So the second line will be having the index as 1
(get-content .\document.txt)[1]

Answer 4

TO find the text file have a look at this link
PowerShell: current directory relative to executing script
After you get that ,We can move to second line of the file easily,
Solution here:-to print the required line
The code may convert itself to be something like this
#include this is in your script,this part of the code will get the absolute path of the script from whereever its running
function Get-ScriptDirectory
{
$Invocation = (Get-Variable MyInvocation -Scope 1).Value
Split-Path $Invocation.MyCommand.Path
}
$path = Join-Path (Get-ScriptDirectory) 'Your Script Name'
$path.ToString()
$path =$path.Substring(0,$path.IndexOf('Your Script Name'))
$path
#now $path has the directory in which you have your files,append it with your text file name
(Get-content $path+'textfilename.txt')[1]
#and get the second line of the content
Credits to SomeShinyobjects
This can be simply written as
$path=$PSScriptRoot+'\textfilename.txt'
(Get-content $path)[1]