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Vasyl Stepulo
Vasyl Stepulo

Reputation: 1623

Proper export from txt to html in Powershell

I have a script, which stores output in txt and I need to convert this output into html.

The format of txt file is following:

This file is generated  for commits from: 2018-07-15 to: 2018-07-21 for branch:  repositories contains: mineq


=============somerepo=============


Branch is development
1234567 Merge pull request #1227 from qp-10421_service_version_information
1234567 Merge branch 'development' into qp-10421_service_version_information
1234567 merged with development
1234567 QP-2071: update packages




=============Someotherrepo=============


Branch is development




=============MineqConfigApi=============


Branch is development
1234567 QP-10881 Remove WindowsVpnSettings service
1234567 Merge pull request #9 from quarti/QP-10881
1234567 QP-10881 Set SshClient ConnectionTimeout 10 minutes and Change sql query to skip Deleted Assets

To send this text into html, I use following code:

$SourceFile = "$env:WORKSPACE\commits.txt"
$TargetFile = "$env:WORKSPACE\commits.html"
$TextData = Get-Content $SourceFile
$LineData = $TextData -join ''
New-Object psobject -Property @{Text = $LineData} | ConvertTo-HTML | Out-File $TargetFile

But the output is following -

How to rework script, to receive exact output, with linebreaks, as in txt file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5488

Answers (1)

Paweł Dyl
Paweł Dyl

Reputation: 9143

I know that ConvertTo-Html is cool, but if I want more control over generated HTML I do it manually:

$content = cat File.txt -Raw
$title = 'My HTML'
$html = @"
<html>
<head><title>$title</title></head>
<body>
<pre>$content</pre>
</body>
</html>
"@
$html | Out-File 'file.html'

pre tag is used in HTML to preserves preformatted element.

Upvotes: 4

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