Escaping special characters in cmd

Question

I have a Windows .bat script in which I try to run a command with password in parameter. The password I want to be able to use is ~!@#$%^&*()_+|-=\\][{}\';:\"/.>

Answer 1

Give this a try, but if runme.exe's argument parser requires quotes as string encapsulators for passwords, the it's not going to work. If you need to have a quote in your password, then runme.exe needs to provide a way to escape it!

runme.exe /password:~!@#$%%^^^&*()_+^|-=\][{}';:"/.>?,<