Insert newline in html format using Powershell

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I have the string value that has 
. I want replace this with \n. and when I convert it to html format after each line comes to another line. But this not work.

$StdOut = 'total 40&#10;drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:55 .&#10;drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:54 ..&#10;-rw------- 1 root root &#32; &#32;0 Jun 16 14:55 cimserver_start.lock&#10;srwxrwxrwx 1 root root &#32; &#32;0

Jun 16 14:55 cim.socket drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 17:58 localauth -rw------- 1 root root 6 Jun 16 14:55 scx-cimd.pid '

$CResult = $StdOut -replace "&#10;", "\n"

After using Convert-html I have the text like this :

'total 40\ndrwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:55 .\ndrwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:54 ..\n-rw------- 1 root root &#32; &#32;0 Jun 16 14:55 cimserver_start.lock\nsrwxrwxrwx 1 root root &#32; &#32;0 Jun 16 14:55
 cim.socket\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 17:58 localauth\n-rw------- 1 root root &#32; &#32;6 Jun 16 14:55 scx-cimd.pid\n

'

How can I do this?

\ is not a character escape sequence in PowerShell, you should use a backtick instead: "`n" — Mathias R. Jessen
– Mathias R. Jessen, Commented Jun 27, 2015 at 16:07

Keith Hill · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-27 17:21:03Z

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The approach Mathias mentions works fine for newlines. But if you have (or could have) other entity refs then I would use the HtmlDecode method e.g.

Add-Assembly System.Web
[System.Web.HttpUtility]::HtmlDecode($StdOut)

Outputs:

total 40
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:54 ..
-rw------- 1 root root    0 Jun 16 14:55 cimserver_start.lock
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0

answered Jun 27, 2015 at 17:21

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B.Z · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-30 13:32:38Z

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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Add-Assembly System.Web
Add-Assembly : The term 'Add-Assembly' is not recognized as the name of a   
cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of 
the name, or if 

a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-Assembly System.Web
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Add-Assembly:String) [],   
CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

answered Jun 30, 2015 at 13:32

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Manuel Henke · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-30 14:54:32Z

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Try this

$null = [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('System.Web')
[System.Web.HttpUtility]::HtmlDecode($StdOut)

Gives me

total 40
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:54 ..
-rw------- 1 root root    0 Jun 16 14:55 cimserver_start.lock
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0

answered Jun 30, 2015 at 14:54

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