Calling UiRobot from Powershell with dollar sign ($) in --input arguments

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Hi,

Here’s my issue :

  • I’m calling a process from a PowerShell command line, and in the input section, I have a password which contains a dollar sign ($) --input "{'password':'pass$word'}"

Why is that an issue :

  • The UiRobot --input parameter takes a string containing a dictionnary/json
  • Powershell strings are known to use the ($) as a splitter

The result I get :

  • In the password area, it only types ‘pass’ instead of ‘pass$word’

I did some research and got this forum post that’s really similar :
Need to run UiRobot from Powershell with arguments containing an embedded quote

But since it did not cover my case, I did more research and got this StackOverflow post that gave me the answer :
Escaping dollar signs in Powershell path is not working

One of the solutions here worked, so since it’s both a rare but not that rare situation, I wanted to make this post to share my finding

Now, my command looks something like this and it works :
uirobot execute --process ProcessName --input "{'password':'pass`$word'}"

So using a ` as an escape character works in this scenario

Hope this helps people in the future