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shawmanz32na
shawmanz32na

Reputation: 1278

Here-String prints extra lines when piped to Out-File

I'm trying to programattically create a file using Powershell (I know, noob stuff) with multiple lines of content.

My attempt is as follows:

$ServicesYaml = @'
parameters:
  twig.config:
    debug: true
    auto-reload: true
    cache: false
'@
$ServicesYaml | Out-File -FilePath .\services.yml

This seems fine when printing to the console using Write-Output: Here-String Console Output

But prints out extra lines when sending to a file: (Viewed using Atom): enter image description here

What am I doing wrong? I obviously don't want all of the unprintable and extra whitespace that appears to be getting printed.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 163

Answers (1)

honzajscz
honzajscz

Reputation: 3107

This is a clash of linuxy nature of GIT and Windows text file byte order mark. The Out-File commandlet uses a Windows encoding (USC-2 LE BOM) that GIT does not supports and GIT treats the file as binary instead of text. Try using Set-Content commandlet which uses UTF-8 without BOM

$ServicesYaml = '
parameters:
    twig.config:
    debug: true
    auto-reload: true
    cache: false
'
$ServicesYaml | Set-Content -FilePath .\services.yml

Upvotes: 2

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