How ignore spaces and special characters in folder names - powershell

Question

We have storage shared as \\192.168.1.26\e$. There are several folders (all shared) which are used by different departments. I wanted to get the owners and users who has access to folders, which are in those share folders.
I have created this PowerShell script for that:
$path = "\\192.168.1.26\e$\"
$getlist = Get-ChildItem -Path \\192.1681.26\e$ | Select-Object Name
foreach ($folder in $getlist) {
$out = '\\192.168.1.26\e$\{0}' -f $folder.name
#write-host $out
#prep arguments
$getargs = $out,'-ad | where {$_.psiscontainer -eq $true} | get-acl | Select-Object path,owner,accesstostring | fl'
write-host $getargs
gci $getargs
}
From $getlist = Get-ChildItem -Path \\192.1681.26\e$ | Select-Object Name I get all folders listed. However some folder names contains spaces and special characters, which causes the rest of the script to fail.
Examples:
It-&-Network
MIS
Account
Sales Reports
Market Report
DATA
When I run the below command it works as expected
gci \\192.168.1.26\e$\MIS | where {$_.psiscontainer -eq $true} | get-acl | Select-Object path,owner,group,accesstostring | fl
But I get an error on this command:
gci \\192.168.1.26\e$\Sales Reports | where {$_.psiscontainer -eq $true} | get-acl | Select-Object path,owner,group,accesstostring | fl
Is there any way to fix this?

Answer 1

Solution from Add double quotes to variable to escape space
$path = '\\localhost\f$\tmp'
$getlist = Get-ChildItem -Path $path | Select-Object Name
foreach ($folder in $getlist) {
$out = '"{0}\{1}"' -f $path,$folder.name
$getargs = $out
write-host $getargs
$extraparam = '-ad | where {$_.psiscontainer -eq $true} | get-acl | Select-Object path,owner,accesstostring | fl'
$run_command = 'gci {0} {1}' -f $getargs,$extraparam
write-host $run_command
Invoke-Expression $run_command
}
Also it can helps you - https://ss64.com/ps/syntax-esc.html
Updated for local disk example, working on my machine.