characters that need escaping and what do you escape with (single / double quotes)

[Robert Gulick]

I am working on a web interface for staff to maintain various aspects of their Google accounts including passwords. The gam commands will be dynamically built and executed after various safeguards.

Is there a list of special characters that need escaping within a GAM command?

What is the escape character?

Does it matter if the the value is double or single quoted?

For example:

gam.exe update user Som...@someplace.com password "fun~-+{}|;>,." changepassword on suspended off

Only looking at all of the fun keyboard special characters.

Thank you for any guidance or a link to documentation.

[Ross Scroggs]

Robert,

How are you going to execute the gam command?

The special quoting is used in the command line (terminal, Command Prompt) to identify the individual arguments.

If you're calling GAM from the web app, you're generally going to be providing a list of arguments so no quoting is necessary (or desired).

Contact me directly via Meet/Zomm to discuss.

Ross

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[Robert Gulick]

The MSSQL server on the back end builds the series of gam commands and drops them into a windows powershell file. Then the powershell file is picked up and executed. Unless there is a better way of course.

[Ross Scroggs]

Robert,

See: https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Command-Line-Parsing#windows-powershell

Ross

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[Gulick, Ed.D., Robert]

Exactly what I needed. Thank you.

Robert T. Gulick, Ed.D.
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