Powershell - concatenate strings

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I try to parse some text files, and at the end I need to make 1 line from 2 lines:

19.10.2012 15:33:22<TAB here!>
textline<TAB here!>#1
19.10.2012 15:33:13<TAB here!>
textline<TAB here!>#2
19.10.2012 15:29:29<TAB here!>
textline<TAB here!>#3
19.10.2012 15:29:23<TAB here!>
textline<TAB here!>#4

At the output I need to have this:

19.10.2012 15:33:22<TAB here!>textline<TAB here!>#1
19.10.2012 15:33:13<TAB here!>textline<TAB here!>#2
19.10.2012 15:29:29<TAB here!>textline<TAB here!>#3
19.10.2012 15:29:23<TAB here!>textline<TAB here!>#4

Help me please! :)

EDIT: This is what I have:

Get-ChildItem $Path -Recurse -Include *.* | Foreach-Object {$_.FullName} |
Foreach-Object {
    Write-Host $_
    $Item = Get-Item $_
        (Get-Content $_ -ReadCount 2 -Encoding UTF8) | Foreach-Object {
        (-join $_)}} | Set-Content $Item -Encoding UTF8

I don't use powershell, but a find/replace on "[tab][carriage-return]" would do it. Easiest non-automated way is to open files in MS Word and replace "^t^p" with "^t". Most good code editors also accept regex or near equivalents. sed in linux/unix would be easy too. — Marc
– Marc, Commented Oct 23, 2012 at 14:20

Shay Levy · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-23 14:38:04Z

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Get-Content test.txt -ReadCount 2 | 
Foreach-Object { (-join $_) -replace '<TAB here!>',"`t" }

answered Oct 23, 2012 at 14:38

Shay Levy

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CB. · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-23 14:25:28Z

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One Way:

$g = @()
$a = gc .\yourTXTfile.txt

for ($i=0; $i -lt $a.count ; $i+=2)
{ $g += $a[$i]+$a[$i+1] }

$g | set-content .\yournewTXTfile.txt

answered Oct 23, 2012 at 14:25

CB.

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tiv Over a year ago

Thanks, can you tell how to include your script in this construction:

Get-ChildItem $Path -Recurse -Include *.* | Foreach-Object {$_.FullName} | Foreach-Object { 	Write-Host $_     $Item = Get-Item $_     ((Get-Content $Item -Encoding UTF8) -Replace '\d+.\d+.\d+ \d+:\d+:\d+	\n', '\d+.\d+.\d+ \d+:\d+:\d+	') | Out-File $Item -Encoding UTF8 }

I try do so by remove EOL characters.. (See after "... -Replace ...

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