Invoke-VMScript escape a character in a variable

[IKirill]

Hi!

One of our customers requires you to change your password, which contains the symbol -$. How can I escape a character in a variable?

$password = "www#$123"
$scriptText = @"
echo osadmin:$password | chpasswd
"@
Invoke-VMScript -VM myvm -ScriptType bash -ScriptText $script -GuestUser root -GuestPassword Zz123456

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Use single quotes instead of double quotes

Try like this

$password = 'www#$123'

$scriptText = @"

echo osadmin:$password | chpasswd 

"@

Invoke-VMScript -VM myvm -ScriptType bash -ScriptText $script -GuestUser root -GuestPassword Zz123456

[IKirill]

single quotes not working

i use

echo osadmin:$password > /tmp/result.txt

and see, that $ symbol is missing

[LucD]

Where did you use single quotes (see my example above)