Don’t do that #19: Use double quotes to escape characters

Don’t do that: You want to display: The share “\\server\share$“ is not available (where share$ is a hidden share).

You write the following code and you escape the double quotes with a backtick (`), the double quotes are missing: ““

Output:

So you do the following and it works:

Do that: A better way is to use just the single quotes instead of double quotes:

Write-Output -InputObject 'The share "\\server\share$" is not available'

Output:

Note: single quotes don’t allow variable expansion (in other words, variables between single quotes are not interpreted).