Powershell 7 - Set-Content and Out-file adds a Carriage Return (CR) to my file

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I am manipulating a file with the Get-Content command, doing a replace then piping it to Set-Content or Out-File. But the the file gets written with a CR before all my linefeeds. My original file has linefeeds, which is OK, but the CR breaks the file for what its being used for.

I tried this Powershell replace content in file adds redundent carriage return

But cannot get it to work. And I would like to avoid using .NET if possible

Here is my code:

(Get-Content "FILE.TEMPLATE") -replace('SEQUENCE', "$NEWSEQUENCE") | Set-Content ("FILE.NEW")

or

(Get-Content "FILE.TEMPLATE") -replace('SEQUENCE', "$NEWSEQUENCE") | Set-Content ("FILE.NEW") -Encoding UTF8NoBOM

I tried setting the encoding with '-Encoding' after the Set-Content pipe, but that does nothing. Tried UTF8, UTF8NoBOM. This out put file is destined to be used to on a UNIX box, which is why the CR breaks the file.

Any ideas?

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1 Answers

It took some more digging around and here is what worked

(Get-Content "FILE.TEMPLATE" -Raw) -replace 'SEQUENCE', "$NEWSEQUENCE" | 
  Set-Content "FILE.NEW" -NoNewLine -Encoding UTF8NoBOM

Had to add -Raw to Get-Content, then add -NoNewLine and -Encoding UTF8NoBOM to Set-Content.

This will only work with PowerShell 6+, since anything below does not have UTF8NoBOM as an encoding option. Powershell 5 defaults to UTF8BOM.

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