I'm trying to execute a simple command with path containing spaces
$solution = "test.sln"
$msbuild = "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe"
Exec { iex "$msbuild `"$solution`" /t:clean"}
Exec { iex "$msbuild `"$solution`"" }
This throws an error
Exception: The term 'x86' is not recognized as the name
which seems to be because the $msbuild
command isn't properly quoted. Tried quoting the command (and escaping quotes with backticks) but still no luck
$msbuild = "`"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe`""
How can you correctly escape/quote above? What are the escaping rules in Powershell?