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

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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

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You can use the Environment class s static NewLine property to get the proper newline    errorMsg      0  Error  1  2  key  3  expected   4  5  local value is   6   -f                   Get-Date   keyPath  value  key  policyValue   Environment   NewLine   localValue Add-Content -Path  logpath  errorMsg

User · Answer

Try this   Add-Content -path  logpath       get-date  tostring    Error  keyPath  value key  key expected   policyValue local value is    localValue

User · Answer

It s also possible to assign newline and carriage return to variables and then append them to texts inside PowerShell scripts    OFS     r n   msg    This is First Line     OFS    This is Second Line     OFS Write-Host  msg

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