How to escape ampersands, semicolons, and curly braces in command-line powershell params?

Question

I\'m using a powershell script to generate a config file with database passwords and the like. The normal use of this script is to generate-and-use a password, but for a fle

Answer 1

powershell .\makeConfig.ps1 -password "'xxx

Here

• outer " double quotes would escape all cmd poisonous characters e.g. <, & etc. excepting " itself and % percentage sign (and ! exclamation mark if delayed expansion is enabled) while
• inner ' apostrophes (single quotes) would escape all powershell ones (excepting ' apostrophe itself).

However, exceptions noticed above could be escaped as well… Based on both Escape characters, Delimiters and Quotes articles:

• in cmd and batch-file
• in powershell