PowerShell keep text formatting when reading in a file

Question

I believe this is a simple question, but I can\'t wrap my head around it. I want to do diagnostic commands in command shell on Windows. Like this:

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Answer 1

To read all the data as a single string with the line breaks embedded

$file = 'c:\testfiles\testfile.txt'

(IPconfig /all) > $file

[IO.File]::ReadAllText($file)

If you have V3, they added the -Raw parameter that will accomplish the same thing:

Get-Content $file -Raw