Question

How do I change the default newline character from Windows \r\n to Unix style \n? Ideally I change the Environment somehow and have it done globally so I don’t need to modify a bunch of string/textwriter code.

Answer 1

Unfortunately this is not really doable. The primary way by which developers embed new lines in their application is by using Enviornment.NewLine. This is a static property which returns Window style new lines

public static string NewLine {
  get { 
    return "\r\n";
  }
}

There is no way to modify the return of this property from your code.

Your best option for changing new line endings is to develop a library which converts known sources of embedding Windows new lines to unix ones. For example a stream and string converter would likely be in order.