How can I use unary operator in Powershell expression as parameter

Question

I'm doing a Powershell script which will call a svn command to relocate a repo. The command will look like this:

$newurl = "https://pathtonewurl"
Invoke-Expression -Command "svn relocate $newurl --username 'user' --password 'password'"

When running, I get: Missing expression after unary operator '--'. How can I use --parameter in an expression ?

You should now use Invoke-Expression for such a purpose. Instead you can use the stop parsing symbol (--%) of PowerShell. Here you can read more: Stop Parsing on ss64.com and About Parsing — Olaf
– Olaf, Commented Apr 5, 2021 at 7:31

Cpt.Whale · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-05 18:55:19Z

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Since svn isn't a powershell command, use Start-Process instead:

Start-Process svn -ArgumentList "relocate $newurl --username 'user' --password 'password'"

answered Apr 5, 2021 at 18:55

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