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I want to call a perl script from powershell where a parameter is quoted:
myProg -root="my path with spaces"
I’ve tried to use -root='"my path with spaces"', -root='my path with spaces', -root=\"my path with spaces\", but nothing seems to work. After pressing <ENTER>, I see >> as a prompt.
How do I pass this quoted argument on the command line in Powershell?
Try putting the entire argument in quotes and escape the inner quotes, that way powershell won’t try to parse it: