Trailing backtick character, i.e.,

&"C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe" `-verb:sync `-source:contentPath="c:\workspace\xxx\master\Build\_PublishedWebsites\xxx.Web" `-dest:contentPath="c:\websites\xxx\wwwroot,computerName=192.168.1.1,username=administrator,password=xxx"

White space matters. The required format isSpace`Enter.

Another method for cleaner argument passing would besplatting.

Define your parameters and values as a hashtable like this:

$params = @{ 'class' = 'Win32_BIOS';             'computername'='SERVER-R2';             'filter'='drivetype=3';             'credential'='Administrator' }

And then call your commandlet like this:

Get-WmiObject @params

Microsoft Docs:About Splatting

TechNet Magazine 2011:Windows PowerShell: Splatting

Looks like it works with Powershell 2.0 and up

Ah, and if you have a very long string that you want to break up, say of HTML, you can do it by putting a@ on each side of the outer" - like this:

$mystring = @"Bobwentto townto buya fatpig."@

You get exactly this:

Bobwentto townto buya fatpig.

And if you are usingNotepad++, it will even highlight correctly as a string block.

Now, if you wanted that string to contain double quotes, too, just add them in, like this:

$myvar = "Site"$mystring = @"<a href="http://somewhere.com/somelocation">Bob's $myvar</a>"@

You would get exactly this:

<a href="http://somewhere.com/somelocation">Bob's Site</a>

However, if you use double-quotes in that @-string like that, Notepad++ doesn't realize that and will switch out the syntax colouring as if it were not quoted or quoted, depending on the case.

And what's better is this: anywhere you insert a $variable, it DOES get interpreted! (If you need the dollar sign in the text, you escape it with a tick mark like this: ``$not-a-variable`.)

NOTICE! If you don't put the final"@ at thevery start of the line, it will fail. It took me an hour to figure out that I could not indent that in my code!

Here isMSDN on the subject:Using Windows PowerShell “Here-Strings”

You can use the backtick operator:

& "C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe" `    -verb:sync `    -source:contentPath="c:\workspace\xxx\master\Build\_PublishedWebsites\xxx.Web" `    -dest:contentPath="c:\websites\xxx\wwwroot\,computerName=192.168.1.1,username=administrator,password=xxx"

That's still a little too long for my taste, so I'd use some well-named variables:

$msdeployPath = "C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe"$verbArg = '-verb:sync'$sourceArg = '-source:contentPath="c:\workspace\xxx\master\Build\_PublishedWebsites\xxx.Web"'$destArg = '-dest:contentPath="c:\websites\xxx\wwwroot\,computerName=192.168.1.1,username=administrator,password=xxx"'& $msdeployPath $verbArg $sourceArg $destArg

If you have a function:

$function:foo | % Invoke @(  'bar'  'directory'  $true)

If you have acmdlet:

[PSCustomObject] @{  Path  = 'bar'  Type  = 'directory'  Force = $true} | New-Item

If you have an application:

{foo.exe @Args} | % Invoke @(  'bar'  'directory'  $true)

Or

icm {foo.exe @Args} -Args @(  'bar'  'directory'  $true)

In PowerShell 5 and PowerShell 5 ISE, it is also possible to use justShift +Enter for multiline editing (instead of standard backticks` at the end of each line):

PS> &"C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe" # Shift+Enter>>> -verb:sync # Shift+Enter>>> -source:contentPath="c:\workspace\xxx\master\Build\_PublishedWebsites\xxx.Web" # Shift+Enter>>> -dest:contentPath="c:\websites\xxx\wwwroot,computerName=192.168.1.1,username=administrator,password=xxx"

Another way to break a string across multiple lines is to put an empty expression in the middle of the string, and break it across lines:

sample string:

"stackoverflow stackoverflow stackoverflow stackoverflow stackoverflow"

broken across lines:

"stackoverflow stackoverflow $()stackoverflow stack$()overflow stackoverflow"

Splat Method with Calculations

If you choose splat method, beware calculations that are made using other parameters. In practice, sometimes I have to set variables first then create the hash table. Also, the format doesn't require single quotes around the key value or the semi-colon (as mentioned above).

Example of a call to a function that creates an Excel spreadsheet$title = "Cut-off File Processing on $start_date_long_str"$title_row = 1$header_row = 2$data_row_start = 3$data_row_end = $($data_row_start + $($file_info_array.Count) - 1)# use parameter hash table to make code more readable$params = @{    title = $title    title_row = $title_row    header_row = $header_row    data_row_start = $data_row_start    data_row_end = $data_row_end}$xl_wksht = Create-Excel-Spreadsheet @params

Note: The file array contains information that will affect how the spreadsheet is populated.

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