How do I pass in a string with spaces into PowerShell?

Question

Given:

# test1.ps1 param(     $x = "",     $y = "" )  &echo $x $y 

Used like so:

powershell test.ps1 

Outputs:

> <blank line> 

But then this goes wrong:

test.ps1 -x "Hello, World!" -y "my friend" 

Outputs:

Hello, my 

I was expecting to see:

Hello, World! my friend 

Answer 1

Well, this is a cmd.exe problem, but there are some ways to solve it.

1. Use single quotes

   powershell test.ps1 -x 'hello world' -y 'my friend' 

2. Use the -file argument

   powershell -file test.ps1 -x "hello world" -y "my friend" 

3. Create a .bat wrapper with the following content

   @rem test.bat @powershell -file test.ps1 %1 %2 %3 %4 

   And then call it:

   test.bat -x "hello world" -y "my friend"