Escaping special characters for azcopy command in a .bat file

Question

Hi, in order to use the azcopy command to copy a txt file from an Azure VM machine to a blob storage I've followed this sample syntax:

The SAS signature introduces some special characters to replace for the .bat file in order to run the azcopy command rightly. I've found and replaced the '%' character with '%%', but which are other special characters to substitute? Thanks

Answer 1

@pmscorca Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A.

In batch files that have the .cmd extension, you'll have to escape the % characters that appear in SAS tokens. You can do that by adding an extra % character next to existing % characters in the SAS token string. The resulting character sequence appears as %%. Make sure to add an extra ^ before each & character to create the character sequence ^&.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy-v10#escape-special-characters-in-sas-tokens

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