PowerShell, square brackets and apostrophes

Mon, 08 Jan 2018 02:15:11 +0300

This is a follow-up post to the one about square brackets and Unicode in PowerShell.

I discovered recently that there is another PITA character that interferes with my workaround — it’s a single quote, or apostrophe.

It’s fine to start PowerShell inside a folder with an apostrophe in its name, but we have to escape it when using inside Powershell commands or passing into PowerShell from anywhere else.

Below are my experiments to find the best way to open PowerShell in any folder… if ever possible.

PowerShell, Explorer, square brackets and Unicode paths

Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:55:11 +0300

Let’s make a folder C:\[test] and try to open PowerShell there from Explorer (using Ribbon or context menu).

Oops!

Let’s see what we can do with this.

LiteralPath on MXI

PowerShell, square brackets and apostrophes

PowerShell, Explorer, square brackets and Unicode paths