The Powershell to create the above example is: Add-Content C:\temp\test.txt "`nItem`tQty`tValue`tTotal"Īdd-Content C:\temp\test.txt "`nPants`t4`t32.22`t128.88"Īdd-Content C:\temp\test.txt "`nSocks`t3`t5.07`t15.21"Īdd-Content C:\temp\test.txt "`nShoes`t12`t136.57`t1638.84"Īs you can see, the tabs are added with the special character “`t”.
This example creates a tab formatted file, the output looks like this: So to continue the example above you could use: Add-Content C:\temp\test.txt "`nThis is a new line"Īnd then the resulting text file would look like this:Īppend formatted data with Powershell by using tabs and new lines To append content on to a new line you need to use the escape character followed by the letter “n”: Example PowerShell to append text to a file on to a new line The above example is fine, but as you can see the data was not written to a new line. If you open the text file again, you will see the text has been appended on to the end of the existing line:
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