Powershell script does not execute when being run in a folder with special character, for example C:\Test'1. If I run the powershell command from there, there is no issue, but executing the ps1 does not work.

Question

Powershell script does not execute when being run in a folder with special character, for example C:\Test'1. If I run the powershell command from there, there is no issue, but executing the ps1 does not work.

I tried it with multiple type of script, on multiple machines and always same behavior. As soon as I rename the folder to remove the special character, it works fine.

Answer 1

May take some special handling if the apostrophe is really needed.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/how-can-i-connect-to-a-folder-when-theres-an-apostrophe-in-the-folder-name/

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Answer 2

From "help about_Quoting_Rules":

Quotation marks are used to specify a literal string. You can enclose a string in single quotation marks (') or double quotation marks (").

Having only one single quote doesn't enclose anything. It only denotes the beginning of a literal string.

To run your example, try .\"c:\Test'1\xxx.ps1"