Using powershell to perform an indexed search where search string contains space

Question

How do you perform an indexed search from the commandline (or powershell script) where the search string contains a space.

for instance

PS C:\Users\user> & "C:\Program Files\MythicSoft\FileLocator Pro\filelocatorpro.exe"
-c "\""Hello World\""" -idxname "idxname" -o "C:\tmp\out.txt"

returns unexpected command line parameter World"

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

PowerShell's quoting rules are a bit odd but I was successful in using a single quote for the parameter and double-quotes for any embedded quotes:

-c '""Hello World""'

A good way to test your command line parameters is to leave out the -o option and just see how FileLocator Pro pre-populates the fields in the GUI.

Comments

Thanks Dave,
You do need the double double quote, as I'm using it in PowerShell script

Guess I figured it out using Start-Process
In script:

   $search = "Hello World"
   $indexName= "myIndex"
   $args = "-c ""\""$($search)\"""" -idxname $($idxName)"
   Start-Process -FilePath 'C:\Program Files\Mythicsoft\FileLocator Pro\FileLocatorPro.exe' -ArgumentList $args

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Apologies, answer corrected. My previous answer was written in haste and not properly tested. Looks like quoting rules are a constant annoyance and also changing between the versions.