What is up with this PowerShell command line quoting/escaping?

Question

I obviously don\'t know what I\'m doing.

I have finally got this PowerShell command to work. But I can\'t figure out why it works.

My concern is the final \"\" c

Answer 1

I finally found out how to do this. Here is a sample script:

$src = 'C:\sandbox\Test Folder\A'
$dest = 'C:\sandbox\Test Folder\B'
$msdeploy = Get-Command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe'
$command = "& `$msdeploy --% -verb:sync -source:contentPath=""$src"" -dest:contentPath=""$dest"""
$sb = $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.NewScriptBlock($command)
& $sb