Question

Is there a way to format the output of Select-String to include newlines between the results without resorting to writing a custom program?

Current behavior:

PS D:\StackOverflowSelectStringSpacingQuestion> Get-ChildItem . | Select-String a

a.txt:1:a
a.txt:2:a
a.txt:3:a

Desired behavior:

PS D:\StackOverflowSelectStringSpacingQuestion> Get-ChildItem . | Select-String a

a.txt:1:a

a.txt:2:a

a.txt:3:a

Answer 1

There’s probably a pithier way than this, but it works:

Get-ChildItem . | Select-String a | Out-String -Stream | Foreach {"$_`n"}