Get-VM with / in name

[ImaRelic]

I have this line of code-

$T = Get-VM $M.Name | Get-Harddisk | Select StorageFormat

It works fine unless there is a / character in the name. (in $M.Name), in which case it errors and fails.  Is there a simple way around this?

Thanks for any suggestion

[LucD]

Use the URL decoding functionality

Something like this

$name = 'Test/123'

Get-VM -Name ([uri]::EscapeDataString($name))

[ImaRelic]

This seems to expand spaces to %20 so it doesn't find the names.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

In that case, go for the Replace method and only replace the slash.

Like this

$name = 'Te st/123'

Get-VM -Name $name.Replace('/','%2F')

[ImaRelic]

That worked perfectly. Thank you very much for the help.

Randy