I returned to work on my old script and wanted to tackle a minor issue I have. As the title says I would like to replace double Carriage Returns and Line Feeds with single Carriage Returns and Line Feeds in specific txt files to remove empty lines. I want to automate this since it’s not needed for every part of the final txt file but only smaller sections.

Here is what I currently do:

(
    ECHO ================================
    ECHO Printers
    WMIC printerconfig get Name
) | More > Printers.txt

The output is always something like this:

================================
Printers
Printer-01

Printer-02

Printer-03
etc. etc.

What I would like to do is to replace those double Carriage Returns and Line Feeds from the text file.

I was thinking of something like:

TYPE Printers.txt | Replace "Carriage Return Line Feed Carriage Return and Line Feed" by "Carriage Return and Line Feed" > Printers2.txt

I probably have the wrong command but to be honest the last time I actively worked on this script was years ago. And before reworking it for PowerShell I would like to work out a few kinks in case I need to use the bat file.