Magically the $String variable now contains text we can read. $Buffer = Get-Content $SourceFileName -Encoding byte To read the data and use the native commands, we can load the file as bytes then convert those bytes to a.
The most common or generic of the EBCDIC formats are under the IBM037 name.Īn example content of an EBCDIC file opened in Notepad looks like this not that readable: Many of the items in the enum are included in this list. You may also notice that about 35 of these encodings contain either IBM or EBCDIC in their DisplayName. NET Framework provides about 140 native encoding types. “Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC)” is an 8- bit character encoding that is extended from the 6-bit encoding used on punch cards. PS> ::GetNames()įiles that come from an IBM mainframe such as the AS/400 are often exported to ASCII or Unicode when a PC is the intended consumer. Sometimes, however, we need to be able to work with these files that are formatted in IBM’s native EBCDIC encoding. The -Encoding parameter in many native I/O cmdlets uses the enum.
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