I am trying to open an SQL data connection using a PowerShell script and my password contains a $ sign:
$cn = new-object system.data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=DBNAME;Initial Catalog=Catagory;User ID=User;Password=pass$word;")
When I try to open a connection it says:
Login failed
Escape it by using backtick (`) as an escape character for the dollar sign ($).
Also, try to enclose the statement in single-quotes instead of the double-quotes you are using now.
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I am testing group migration using ADMT cmd line, but the migration is failing for a specific case when the OU name contains double quotes.
ADMT GROUP /n "TestGroup" /sd:Child.A.COM /sdc.CHILD.A.COM /td.COM /tdc.A.COM /to:"ParentOU/TEST!##$%^&*()_+{}|:"<>?[]\;',./" /intraforest:yes
In cmd this throws "> was unexpected at this time" and in powershell it keeps waiting for more parameters. The main purpose is to convert this to a c# script the migrates the users/groups but it failed in the testing phase with cmd/powershell. Is there any way to make this possible at least in C#?
I have tried escaping the double quotes with "", ^", ", `" but nothing seems to work. I have also tried assigning the value to a variable and using the variable in powershell. Using "" (as suggested in this Escaping special characters in cmd) is the only time the command runs but it still throws the following error.
Error: Unable to migrate groups. Unable to bind to container
'ParentOU/TEST!##$%^&()+{}|:<>?[];',./ /intraforest:yes'. Unable to
get distinguished name for
'A.COM/ParentOU/TEST!##$%^&;()+{}|:<>?[];',./ /intraforest:yes'. :
The parameter is incorrect. (0x80070057)
The same is working if I create another OU with same name except for the double quotes.
Please help in resolving this issue.
You can do solve it in different ways:
With escaping the characters with carets outside of the quote
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set "to_param=ParentOU/TEST^!##$%^&*()_+{}|:"^^^^^<^^^^^>?[];',./"
call ADMT GROUP /to:"%%to_param%%"
The main problem will be the ADMT program, you need to know how it parses the arguments, particularly with regard to the rules how it escape quotes inside arguments.
You could test \" in set "to_param=ParentOU...\"^^^^^<^^^^^>?[];',./"
I'm importing some values from a csv file and using them to create a adb command for an Android intent with the following code.
Write-Host adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW '-d' '"https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=' $($c.number)'"'
This gives me an out put of:
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone= 12345678 "
How can I remove the spaces where the variable is concatenated to the string to give the output of:
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=12345678"
Use string interpolation by switching to double quotes:
Write-Host adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW '-d' "`"https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=$($c.number)`""
Within double quotes, you have to backtick-escape double quotes to output them literally.
zett42's helpful answer is unquestionably the best solution to your problem.
As for what you tried:
Write-Host ... '"https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=' $($c.number)'"'
The fact that there is a space before $($c.number) implies that you're passing at least two arguments.
However, due to PowerShell's argument-mode parsing quirks, you're passing three, because the '"' string that directly follows $($c.number) too becomes its own argument.
See this answer for more information.
Therefore, compound string arguments (composed of a mix of quoted and unquoted / differently quoted tokens) are best avoided in PowerShell.
Therefore:
Either: Use a single, expandable (double-quoted) string ("..."), as in zett42's answer.
Or: Use an expression enclosed in (...) and use string concatenation with the + operator, as shown below.
Write-Host ... ('"https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=' + $c.number + '"')
I have a Jenkins pipeline that invokes a Powershell script via the Powershell plugin. The pipeline uses withCredentials to put the user/password for Powershell to use in SQL connections into variables. I pass them as properties on the command:
def psCmd="./Set-CheckmarxTeams -server ${server} -jkuser $sqluser -jkpass $sqlpass"
The script has them defined as parameters:
param ([string]$server='ad1hfddbst930\shared',[string]$jkuser,[string]$jkpass)
but the SQL connection using $jkuser and $jkpass fails. The password has a $ in the middle. I tried to Write-Host $jkpass and it only shows the part up to the $, but nothing after it. Do I need to modify the string before passing it in? If so, how?
"Escaping" the dollar sign is easy and good to know. In this case, #Richard Schaefer needed to pass the entire string of a password that included the dollar sign.
Storing a string in the $jkpass variable like so:
$jkpass = "thisisa$password"
Would output: thisisa
Therefore, storing the password with single quotes eliminates this issue.
$jkpass = 'thisisa$password'
This outputs: thisisa$password
I'm trying to put together an SFTP command to be run through Powershell. The executable I have access to is SFTPC.exe (Bitvise Tunnelier)
The command I'm trying is
sftpc.exe user#ftp.domain.com -pw=password -unat=y -cmd="ls \"somefile.txt\""
According to the documentation at https://www.bitvise.com/files/sftpc-v4.14-usage.txt this should log in and run the command ls "somefile.txt" (quotes are escaped within the command parameter)
What actually happens is that I get another line for input, as if there's an unclosed quote.
I've tried adding an extra quote to the end
sftpc.exe user#ftp.domain.com -pw=password -unat=y -cmd="ls \"somefile.txt\"""
This connects and logs in, but the colland it tries to run is ls \somefile.txt"
Note the trailing quote and the leading slash.
So it looks like I'm missing something in the quote escaping, but I can't see what I might be doing wrong. I've also tried replacing double quotes with single in a couple of different places, experiments that usually end in a syntax error.
The escape character in powershell is not a backslash, it's the backtick.
Does the below work?
sftpc.exe user#ftp.domain.com -pw=password -unat=y -cmd="ls `"somefile.txt`""
I am running a T-SQL script, called from a powershell script, that contains a text row which includes a sequence containing $(MV).
When I run the script I get the error "'MV' scripting variable not defined." which I assume is because it interpretates the $(MV) string as a variable instead of being a part of the text string.
How can I write the dollar sign as an escape sequence? Is that possible in a string?
Are you executing the script with sqlcmd? It will interpret $(variablename) and try to expand it.
You can disable this using the -x command-line option.
Oh, if you're using Invoke-Sqlcmd you can use the -DisableVariables parameter.
I was assuming you didn't want to have the sqlcmd variable substitution done. If you were just trying to get the $ past Powershell, use the back-tick (`$) as in another suggestion.
You can use the backtick character to escape a $ sign in PowerShell:
`$