After viewing this post I am trying to escape quotes, but doing a backslash does not escape html quotes like this: ” <-- notice it's a right double quote unlike the normal ".
E.g:
Works fine:
powershell -noexit -command $str = \"hello '123' world\"; write-host $str
Does not work:
powershell -noexit -command $str = \"hello '123'” world\"; write-host $str
How can I escape this? Or better how do I escape ALL characters at once to get rid of this hassle!
Use a backtick ` to escape your special double quote, so this:
powershell -noexit -command $str = \"hello '123'” world\"; write-host $str
becomes this:
powershell -noexit -command $str = \"hello '123'`” world\"; write-host $str
EDIT:
Option 1. If you prefer using here-strings, you can change the above to powershell -file and run your powershell script file. Use here-strings as much as you want there.
Option 2. If you prefer not to deal with your special quote character inside calling/processing application/script, you can switch to using single quotes instead. In this case you only need to escape your single quotes, by doubling them, like this:
powershell -noexit -command $str = 'hello ''123''” world'; write-host $str
Notice here I did not do anything to your double quote character, and it works just fine.
So your string replace code may become slightly easier to read and maintain, especially if the editor does not display this character correctly (like Powershell console does - it shows a regular double quote instead).
$str text passed into it? You should be able to do a string replace of ” to `” before you execute the command.-command argument with " """"" text """".Example:
powershell.exe -command "$s=""""A string.""""; $s"
Output Stream:> A string.
powershell.exe -command "$s=""""Use $(2*4) """"""""quote chars"""""""" in strings.""""; $s"
Output Stream:> Use 8 "quote chars" in strings.
For clarity, here's the equivalent Powershell code:
$s="Use $(2*4) ""quote chars"" in strings."; $s
I've faced the same issue and found out that with Powershell 6.x (Core) it's possible to do this:
pwsh -command write-host "`u{22}quoted`u{22}"
Output:
"quoted"
Running this from a command prompt (and within PowerShell actually):
powershell -noexit -command { $str = "hello '123' world"; write-host $str }
generates:
hello '123' world
Does this do what you need?
Command
powershell -command " """"Hi there `\""Bobby`\"", my friend."""" "
powershell -command " """"Well hello `""""my friendo`"""", why so curious?"""" "
powershell -command " """"Hmm, why are you wondering about \""\""my curiosity?\""\""."""" "
powershell -command " """"I sense """"""""tension"""""""", no?"""" "
powershell -command " 'And what would the cause of this """"tension"""" be?' "
powershell -command " 'Oh you know, \"things\" of \"sorts\"...' "
powershell -command "$q=""`""""""; """"Interesting ${q}things${q} of ${q}sorts${q}?"""" "
powershell -command " """"Yes. $([char]34)THINGS$([char]34) of $([char]34)SORTS$([char]34)"""" "
powershell -command " """"This conversation is $('""""')soooo$('""""') over."""" "
powershell -command " """"Sure $('\"')is$('\"')."""" "
Powershell
"Hi there `"Bobby`", my friend."
"Well hello `"my friendo`", why so curious?"
"Hmm, why are you wondering about ""my curiosity?""."
"I sense ""tension"", no?"
'And what would the cause of this "tension" be?'
'Oh you know, "things" of "sorts"...'
$q="`""; "Interesting ${q}things${q} of ${q}sorts${q}?"
"Yes. $([char]34)THINGS$([char]34) of $([char]34)SORTS$([char]34)"
"This conversation is $('"')soooo$('"') over."
"Sure $('"')is$('"')."
Output
Hi there "Bobby", my friend.
Well hello "my friendo", why so curious?
Hmm, why are you wondering about "my curiosity?".
I sense "tension", no?
And what would the cause of this "tension" be?
Oh you know, "things" of "sorts"...
Interesting "things" of "sorts"?
Yes. "THINGS" of "SORTS"
This conversation is "soooo" over.
Sure "is".
Table (various methods)
| CMD in ("""") | PS1 in (") | CMD in (') | PS1 in (') |
|-------------------------|------------------------|------------|------------|
| `""""hi`"""" | `"hi`" | | |
| """"""""hi"""""""" | ""hi"" | ""hi"" | "hi" |
| $('""')hi$('""') | $('"')hi$('"') | | |
| $('\"')hi$('\"') | $('"')hi$('"') | | |
| `\""hi`\"" | ""hi"" | \"hi\" | "hi" |
| $([char]34)hi$([char]34)|$([char]34)hi$([char]34)| | |
When executing powershell within a command prompt, to get the powershell interpreter to parse a literal double quote, it needs to be fed in as \". After that all the other quoting rules for powershell apply.
For example,
powershell -Command echo \"foo `\" bar\"
prints
foo bar
the same as if you were to have an interactive powershell, and typed in
echo "foo `" bar"
