Escaping quotes and double quotes

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Using the backtick (`) works fine for me if I put them in the following places:

$cmd="\\server\toto.exe -batch=B -param=`"sort1;parmtxt="Security ID=1234"`""

$cmd returns as:

\\server\toto.exe -batch=B -param="sort1;parmtxt="Security ID=1234""

Is that what you were looking for?

The error PowerShell gave me referred to an unexpected token ‘sort1’, and that’s how I determined where to put the backticks.

The @’ … ‘@ syntax is called a “here string” and will return exactly what is entered. You can also use them to populate variables in the following fashion:

$cmd=@'
"\\server\toto.exe -batch=B -param="sort1;parmtxt="Security ID=1234"""
'@

The opening and closing symbols must be on their own line as shown above.

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