How to pass over ampersand to powershell from WSL?

[sunjoong]

• Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)
  Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]

I tried to launch microsoft-edge with url having ampersand. I prepare a test url instead of my real url that's wanted to be launched.

• Test url is https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FMicrosoft%2FBashOnWindows%2Fissues&usg=AFQjCNHYJj1Y465rnV4VWzVcIVSF58cn9w
• This url will be redirected to https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues

In PowerShell, it will occur errors because of ampersand;

PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0> pwd

Path
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0


PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0> ./powershell.exe start microsoft-edge:"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FMicrosoft%2FBashOnWindows%2Fissues&usg=AFQjCNHYJj1Y465rnV4VWzVcIVSF58cn9w"
At line:1 char:55
+ { start microsoft-edge:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&url=https%3A%2 ...
+                                                       ~
The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use; wrap an ampersand in double quot
ation marks ("&") to pass it as part of a string.
At line:1 char:121
+ ... ttps%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FMicrosoft%2FBashOnWindows%2Fissues&usg=AFQj ...
+                                                                 ~
The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use; wrap an ampersand in double quot
ation marks ("&") to pass it as part of a string.
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmpersandNotAllowed

PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0>

But, it can be solved by {} like this;

PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0> ./powershell.exe { start microsoft-edge:"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FMicrosoft%2FBashOnWindows%2Fissues&usg=AFQjCNHYJj1Y465rnV4VWzVcIVSF58cn9w" }
PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0>

I tried to this in WSL but failed.

SUNJOONG-DESKTOP v1.0 # pwd
/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0
SUNJOONG-DESKTOP v1.0 # ./powershell.exe { start microsoft-edge:"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FMicrosoft%2FBashOnWindows%2Fissues&usg=AFQjCNHYJj1Y465rnV4VWzVcIVSF58cn9w" }
At line:1 char:55
+ { start microsoft-edge:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&url=https%3A%2 ...
+                                                       ~
The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use; wrap an ampersand in double quot
ation marks ("&") to pass it as part of a string.
At line:1 char:121
+ ... ttps%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FMicrosoft%2FBashOnWindows%2Fissues&usg=AFQj ...
+                                                                 ~
The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use; wrap an ampersand in double quot
ation marks ("&") to pass it as part of a string.
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmpersandNotAllowed

SUNJOONG-DESKTOP v1.0 #

Same command with {}, but failed only in WSL. How can fix it?

[sunjoong]

Hmm.... I found that;

sunjoong@SUNJOONG-DESKTOP /mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0 $ ./powershell.exe start microsoft-edge:'\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FMicrosoft%2FBashOnWindows%2Fissues&usg=AFQjCNHYJj1Y465rnV4VWzVcIVSF58cn9w\"'
sunjoong@SUNJOONG-DESKTOP /mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0 $

The anser was '\"url\"', i.e., single-quot-mark+slash+double-quot-mark+url+slash+double-quot-mark+single-quot-mark.