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Powershell: Setting Encoding for Get-Content Pipeline

I have a file saved as UCS-2 Little Endian I want to change the encoding so I ran the following code:

cat tmp.log -encoding UTF8 > new.log

The resulting file is still in UCS-2 Little Endian. Is this because the pipeline is always in that format? Is there an easy way to pipe this to a new file as UTF8?

Solution

  • As suggested here:

    Get-Content tmp.log | Out-File -Encoding UTF8 new.log