Powershell replace double quotes with single in a string

Question

I just can't get it right

The below statement throws an exception and I cannot get the correct format

$appendedQry = $appendedQry -replace "\"","'"

What would be the correct syntax?

Saksham · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-08 10:12:35Z

13

It should be

$appendedQry = $appendedQry -replace '"',''''

answered Jul 8, 2014 at 10:12

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Personally, I like -replace '"',"'". ;)

user2630614 · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-08 10:10:17Z

this because the escaping character is `

in the following a working example

$appendedQry = "`"asd" echo $appendedQry $appendedQry = $appendedQry -replace "`"", "'" echo $appendedQry

Daw Pod · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-11 09:14:19Z

I was replacing all occurances of the string in a file, using command

powershell -Command "(gc c:\input.txt) -replace 'aaa', 'bbb' | Out-File c:\output.txt"

To replace double quotes I need to do some trick - use the variable:

$ToReplace = "\" + """" $command = "(gc c:\input.txt) -replace '" + $ToReplace + "', 'bbb' | Out-File c:\output.txt" powershell -Command $command