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How to make Windows command prompt treat single quote as though it is a double quote?

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Mar 15, 202624983 views
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My scenario is simple - I am copying script samples from the Mercurial online book and pasting them in a Windows command prompt. The problem is that the samples in the book use single quoted strings. When a single quoted string is passed on the Windows command prompt, the latter does not recognize …

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Fix for: How to make Windows command prompt treat single quote as though it is a double quote?

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The quoting character can't be changed in the command.com prompt. You can, however, use PowerShell which accepts both single and double quotes as quoting characters. They function the same as in Unix shells. I.e., single quotes do not expand variabl…

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