How to escape command line arguments on PowerShell?

Question

It appears that I can escape command line arguments using single or double quotes:

PS C:\\> echo Hello World
Hello
World
PS C:\\> echo \'Hello World\'
         


        

Answer 1

Try putting an ampersand before the command. For example

& 'C:\Program Files\winscp\winscp.exe'

Answer 2

Use this:

. "c:\program files\test.exe"

Actually an even better solution would be:

Invoke-Item "c:\program files\test.exe"

or using the alias:

ii "c:\program files\test.exe"

Using Invoke-Item means that the proper Windows file handler would be used. So for an EXE file it would run it. For a .doc file for instance, it would open it in Microsoft Word.

Here is one of the handiest PowerShell command lines around. Give it a try:

ii .