-NewLine Parameter to customize line separator for Get-Content

[iRon7]

By default Get-Content (and switch -File) streams lines on either CR, CRLF, or LF newlines, which is a good thing as it allows to interchange (large) text files between Operating Systems. The point is though that in some cases a more specific line terminator is required (e.g. only a CRLF) which could possible lead to not being able to stream lines (using standard cmdlets to prevent out of memory exceptions) if it concerns very large text files.
See: StackOverflow Powershell - Count number of carriage returns line feed in .txt file

An additional Parameter as -Newline <string> (e.g. -Newline "`r`n") could resolve this and might also allow to stream a (large) text file on a completely different character (combination) as e.g. a tab: -Newline "`t".

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[mklement0]

Note that Get-Content already has a -Delimiter parameter that serves this purpose: it accepts any literal string as the string to split the file content by, using terminator logic rather than separator logic (that is, if the content ends in the given string, no additional, empty element is reported).

-Delimiter is a dynamic parameter of the FileSystem provider.

[iRon7]

I completely missed this -Delimiter parameter