powershell - Remove blank lines from output?

Question

When I run this command, it returns the output with lots of blank lines.

Get-Host | Select Name, Version | Format-List

I tried using ExpandProperty but it still leaves me with one blank line at the end of the output, is there a way to remove the last blank line?

Get-Host | Select -ExpandProperty Name, Version | Format-List 

Answer 1

If you really need the format that Format-List provides, then you can use Out-String and Trim() to get rid of empty lines:

Get-Host | Select Name,Version | Format-List | Out-String | ForEach-Object { $_.Trim() }

But, depending on your needs, it's probably easier to just use CSV or the JSON format for further processing (see ConvertTo-Json or ConvertTo-Csv).