Writing new lines to a text file in PowerShell

Question

I'm creating an error log file. This is my current code:

Add-Content -path $logpath $((get-date).tostring() + " Error " + $keyPath `
   + $value + " key " + $key +" expected: " + $policyValue `
   + "`n local value is: " +$localValue

When I Get-Content on the log file, it displays correctly, with the new line before "local value."

However, when I open the log file in Notepad, it displays everything on a single line. How can I cause it to insert a new line into the text file as well?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17434151/writing-new-lines-to-a-text-file-in-powershell

Answer 1

`n is a line feed character. Notepad (prior to Windows 10) expects linebreaks to be encoded as `r`n (carriage return + line feed, CR-LF). Open the file in some useful editor (SciTE, Notepad++, UltraEdit-32, Vim, ...) and convert the linebreaks to CR-LF. Or use PowerShell:

(Get-Content $logpath | Out-String) -replace "`n", "`r`n" | Out-File $logpath