How to escape characters in Powershell

Question

I am using below command to test the URL and same is used in monitoring tool.

cmd \c powershell -command "Invoke-WebRequest http://V2-LBDAX-PRD01:8101/DynamicsAx/Services/AxManageabilityServiceGroup" | findstr /c:"200 OK"
cmd \c powershell -command "Invoke-WebRequest http://V2-LBDAX-PRD01:8101/DynamicsAx/Services/BIServices" | findstr /c:"200 OK"
cmd \c powershell -command "Invoke-WebRequest http://V2-LBDAX-PRD01:8101/DynamicsAx/Services/CARDIXFServiceGroup" | findstr /c:"200 OK"
cmd \c powershell -command "Invoke-WebRequest http://V2-LBDAX-PRD01:8101/DynamicsAx/Services/CARItemStorePriceAvailServiceGroup" | findstr /c:"200 OK"

First and second command works, but the third and fourth command doesn't works. How do i escape /C. All url's having /C,i am getting error as below

'ARDIXFServiceGroup' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Answer 1

If you need to encode just the url, you can use HttpUtility.UrlEncode Method

[System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode("http://V2-LBDAX-PRD01:8101/DynamicsAx/Services/BIServices")

then replace the output with your current url,

Also you can use the Powershell -EncodedCommand to encode the whole command, also you can convert the findstr /c:"200 OK" to Powershell cmdlet Select-String so:

# Encode the Command First:
$command = 'Invoke-WebRequest http://V2-LBDAX-PRD01:8101/DynamicsAx/Services/BIServices | Select-String "200 OK"'
$bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($command)
$encodedCommand = [Convert]::ToBase64String($bytes)
cmd /c powershell -encodedCommand $encodedCommand