Is it possible to replace a string in a text file with a line break via the windows command line?

Question

I have a text-file that contains a bunch of data on a single line without any line-breaks . It will contain data that looks similar to this:

{"Id":1801157,":"33611134":"E","Oct 19:":"G","Order":"117" ,"BroadcastDate":"2019-10-19"}

What I want to do is insert a line break right before BroadcastDate so it now looks like this:

{"Id":1801157,":"33611134":"E","Oct 19:":"G","Order":"117" ,"
BroadcastDate":"2019-10-19"}

I want to be able to do it via a the windows command-line . So basically I want do to find BroadcastDate and replace it with <line break>BroadcastDate .

Answer 1

Seems like an odd thing to do, but not very difficult in PowerShell. If you are on a supported Windows system, it will have PowerShell.

=== Format-BroadcastFile.ps1

Get-Content -Path '.\BroadcastDate.txt' |
    ForEach-Object {
        $_ -replace 'BroadcastDate'."`nBroadcastDate"
    }

=== Run it in a.bat file script or the cmd shell.

powershell -NoLogo -NoProfile -File "Format-BroadcastFile.ps1" >".\newfile.txt