Powershell add-content line breaks

Question

I am trying to figure out how to eliminate line breaks when using add-content

echo $server \"Uptime: \" $uptime.days \", Days\" $uptime.hours \", Hours\" $up         


        

Answer 1

I guess you want to have one line with the info, then:

"$server Uptime: $($uptime.days) Days, $($uptime.hours) Hours, $($uptime.minutes) Minutes" | add-content $output_file

If every item should be on separate line, you might add `n

"$server Uptime`n$($uptime.days) Days`n$($uptime.hours) Hours`n$($uptime.minutes) Minutes" | add-content $output_file

Other possibility is to use -f which is sometimes more readable:

"$server Uptime: {0} Days, {1} Hours, {2} Minutes" -f $uptime.days, $uptime.hours, $uptime.minutes | add-content $output_file

Update echo is alias for Write-Output (Get-Alias -name echo) which in your case produces array of objects. This array is passed to Add-Content; each object is stored on its own line.

Answer 2

how about

[IO.File]::AppendAllText($testfile,"abc",[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8)

Answer 3

The simplest way to sidestep any problem PowerShell might be putting into the line breaks would be to avoid using the providers.

By using [IO.File]::WriteAllText to write the file, you should be able to avoid the linebreaks that come from PowerShell. The only caveat is that [IO.File]::WriteAllText doesn't understand PowerShell paths, so you'll need to pass it an absolute path.

Hope this helps,