Add double quotes to variable to escape space

Question

I am running a script which has $FileName variable containing the absolute path with spaces. Due to the space within the directory name and file name, the script fails to ex

Answer 1

$FilePath = Join-Path $Path $($Dir + "\" + $File + “.txt”)
"`"$FilePath`""

...would output...

"X:\Movies\File One\File One.txt"

This is an example of variable expansion in strings.

Of course, if the path you want to quote could contain " quotes itself, for example in a future "powershell for linux", you'd need to escape the " in a context specific way.