This happens because of your casting. Get-Content
returns an object array with a string object per line in the textfile. When you cast it to [string]
, it joins the objects in the array. The problem is that you don't specify what to join the objects with (e.g. linebreak (backtick)n
).
ipconfig >> test.txt
#Get array of strings. One per line in textfile
$message = Get-Content test.txt
#Get one string-object with linebreaks
$message = (Get-Content test.txt) -join "`n"