How to escape ampersands, semicolons, and curly braces in command-line powershell params?
powershell .\makeConfig.ps1 -password "'xxx<xxxx;xxxxx&x.xxxx}xx/xxx'" -otherparam 3Here
- outer
"double quotes would escape allcmdpoisonous characters e.g.<,&etc. excepting"itself and%percentage sign (and!exclamation mark if delayed expansion is enabled) while - inner
'apostrophes (single quotes) would escape allpowershellones (excepting'apostrophe itself).
However, exceptions noticed above could be escaped as well… Based on both Escape characters, Delimiters and Quotes articles:
I'm running firebase using a powershell script. I solved the problem by using triple double-quotes like this: firebase deploy --token "$firebaseToken" --project "$firebaseProject" --message """$releaseMessage""". The URL is in the $releaseMessage, and the ampersand doesn't cause a problem anymore.