How can I replace newlines using PowerShell?

Question

Given test.txt containing:

test
message

I want to end up with:

testing
a message

I think the fol

Answer 1

If you want to remove all new line characters and replace them with some character (say comma) then you can use the following.

(Get-Content test.txt) -join ","

This works because Get-Content returns array of lines. You can see it as tokenize function available in many languages.