How to access file paths in Powershell containing special characters?

Question

I am calling powershell from within a Java application (thru the Windows command prompt) to read various file attributes.

e.g.

powershell (get-item \         


        

Answer 1

This thread is 5 years old so maybe times have changed, but the current answer that worked for me was to use the backtick (`) symbol to escape the special character.

In my case, it was a dollar sign in a directory path that was failing. By putting a backtick before the dollar sign, everything worked.

Before:

$dir = "C:\folder$name\dir"  # failed

After:

$dir = "C:\folder`$name\dir" # succeeded