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I'm trying something really simple here, but can't figure out where I'm going wrong. I've found many other useful discussions of this - particularly here - but haven't found anything that covers my specific scenario.
In powershell, I have typed the following:
$path = "c:\program files\"
$path2 = "c:\program files\fred2\"
echoargs $path $path2
echoargs "$path" "$path2"
In both calls to echoargs, I get
Arg 0 is <c:\program files" c:\program>
Arg 1 is <files\fred2">
back as the result. How can I get the parameters to be passed through correctly?
NB: In my real script the path variables are built up from a few config parameters, so I can't just pass them directly in single quotes.
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Use quotation marks when specifying long filenames or paths with spaces. For example, typing the copy c:\my file name d:\my new file name command at the command prompt results in the following error message: The system cannot find the file specified.
In case you want to run powershell.exe -File from the command line, you always have to set paths with spaces in double quotes ("").
To display the value of a variable, type the variable name, preceded by a dollar sign ( $ ). To change the value of a variable, assign a new value to the variable. The following examples display the value of the $MyVariable variable, changes the value of the variable, and then displays the new value.
You need to enclose your result strings in single quotes inside the scope of the execution:
echoargs "'$path'" "'$path2'"
This will pass them to the called application delimited inside single quotes, but since the entire string is still in double quotes your parameter will be expanded correctly.
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