Import CSV Without First Line in PowerShell

Given a CSV file with some comments on the first line and starting with the headers on the second line. The Import-Csv cmdlet will not work in this scenario. In this case, you need to skip the first line to recognize the headers.

You need to get the file and then use the Select-Object cmdlet with the Skip parameter to skip the first line and then convert this to CSV.

In this sample, we then use the ConvertFrom-Csv cmdlet to convert into CSV format.

$csvFile = 'file.csv'
$csvData = Get-Content -Path $csvFile | Select-Object -Skip 1 | ConvertFrom-Csv