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Is it possible to replace a string in a text file with a line break via the windows command line?
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Yes, it is possible to replace a string in a text file with a line break using the Windows command line. You can achieve this by using the powershell
command along with a PowerShell one-liner. Here's an example:
batchpowershell -Command "(Get-Content input.txt) -replace 'string_to_replace', [Environment]::NewLine | Set-Content output.txt"
In the above example:
- Replace
input.txt
with the path to your input text file. - Replace
'string_to_replace'
with the string you want to replace. - The
[Environment]::NewLine
portion represents the line break. It uses theNewLine
property from theEnvironment
class in PowerShell, which corresponds to the platform-specific line break. - The modified content is then written to
output.txt
, which you can replace with the desired output file name or path.
When you run this command, it reads the content of the input file, replaces the specified string with a line break, and then writes the modified content to the output file.
Note that this solution relies on PowerShell, so make sure you have PowerShell installed on your Windows system.