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Jackie
Jackie

Reputation: 2634

newline in powershell not show in notepad

if I open the test.txt with notepad, it's a single line, no newlines between two "test". but if I open it with vim or ultraedit, I could see the newlines. what's the reason?

Set-Content .\test.txt "test`n`ntest"

update:

"test" | Out-File .\test.txt -Encoding ascii -Append

will append a newline that could be shown

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6175

Answers (2)

Marcus
Marcus

Reputation: 6117

Simply use Windows line endings, rather than Unix ones:

Set-Content .\test.txt "test`r`ntest"

uses CRLF rather than your LFLF (CR = carriage return `r, LF = linefeed `n )

Notepad uses Windows line endings. Vim understands LF just fine.

Upvotes: 10

paulsm4
paulsm4

Reputation: 121699

If I'm understanding your question correctly, then you have a text file that has Unix newlines, instead of DOS carriage returns/line feeds.

Go into "hex edit" mode in UltraEdit and see if the end-of-line character is "0D0A" (carriage return/line feed), or just "0d" (newline).

Upvotes: 1

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