Windows PowerShell Backtick `

 

• Backtick allows you to word-wrap PowerShell commands

1. # Backtick ` PowerShell word-wrap
    Get-Service * |Sort-Object ServiceType `
    | Format-Table name, status, `
    ServiceType, CanStop, –auto

2. Get-Service * |Sort-Object ServiceType | Format-Table name, ServiceType, status, CanStop, –auto

Above two commands are the same.

 

• Problem with PowerShell's backtick and whitespace

Here is a really nasty problem with the PowerShell backtick, and that is if you inadvertently add whitespace after the ` and before the actual end of the line.

 

• The PowerShell Backtick as an Escape Character

Escape sequence	Corresponding Special Character
`n	Newline
`t	Horizontal tab
`a	Alert
`b	Backspace
`'	Single quote
`"	Double quote
`0	The NULL character (in other words, 0)
``	A single backtick