How to remove blanks line from a text outpu file

[cosimo]

If I wrote a script file like this :
Get-Date | format-list DayOfWeek | out-file -Encoding ascii date.txt

It write Day of week in date.txt text file but the output text file starts
with two blank line (like Carriage Return) and then : "DayOfWeek : Thursday"
Is there any way to format the output text file so the "DayOfWeek :
Thursday" starts at the first line of the text file (without blank lines)?

Thanks in advance.
Ing. Cosimo Mercuro

[Marco Shaw [MVP]]

Yes, there are annoying blank lines that will show up with the various
format-* and select-object cmdlets, for example.

Quick workaround:
PS>"DayOfWeek: "+(get-date).dayofweek|out-file -Encoding ascii date.txt

Marco

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[Kiron]

# in PowerShell blank lines are equivalent to $false when cast
# as a [boolean]
[bool]'' -eq $false

# if you pipe the formatted objects to Out-String with its
# -Stream switch 'on' you could then filter out the blanks
# through Where-Object:

get-date | format-list DayOfWeek | out-string -stream |
? {$_} | out-file -encoding ascii date.txt
gc date.txt

# another way is to remove the blank lines from the file
# and set the content back to it:

get-date | format-list DayOfWeek | out-file -encoding ascii date.txt
# before
gc date.txt
set-content date.txt (${c:date.txt} | ? {$_}) -encoding ascii
# after
gc date.txt

# to remove all blank lines but leave the top, or the bottom, ones
get-date | format-list DayOfWeek | out-file -encoding ascii date.txt

# remove all blank lines, except for the bottom
(gc date.txt | out-string) -replace '(\r\n)+',"`r`n" -replace '^(\r\n)+'

# remove all blank lines, except for the top
(gc date.txt | out-string) -replace '(\r\n)+',"`r`n" -replace '(\r\n)+$'

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Kiron

[tojo2000]

Just for the sake of one more way to do it:

Get-Date | %{"DayOfWeek: $($_.DayOfWeek)"} | out-file -Encoding ascii
date.txt

[cosimo]

Thanks Marco.
It works fine!
Cosimo Mercuro

[awfisms]

One more, surely:

"DayOfWeek: $((get-date).dayofweek)" | out-file -Encoding ascii date.txt