powershell is missing the terminator

Question

I have the following script code        string  password      Read-Host  Input password  please        param            string  ReleaseFile     throw  -ReleaseFile is required             string  Destination     throw  -Destination is required              function unzipRelease  src   dst                 shell   new-object -com shell application          zip    shell NameSpace  src          foreach  item in  zip items                           shell Namespace  dst  copyhere  item                            deployrelease ps1 -ReleaseFile    deploy zip  -Destination          unzipRelease    Src   ReleaseFile  -Dst   Destination    I run the script with     deployrelease ps1 -ReleaseFile    deploy zip  -Destination      But I keep getting this       PS C  Users Administrator Documents Tools gt    deployrelease ps1 -ReleaseFile    deploy zip  -Destination     The string starting      At C  Users Administrator Documents Tools deployrelease ps1 19 char 16       unzipRelease      lt  lt  lt  lt   Src   ReleaseFile  -Dst   Destination      is missing the terminator         At C  Users Administrator Documents Tools deployrelease ps1 19 char 55       unzipRelease     Src   ReleaseFile  -Dst   Destination   lt  lt  lt  lt            CategoryInfo            ParserError   Src    ReleaseF     Destination   String      ParseException           FullyQualifiedErrorId   TerminatorExpectedAtEndOfString   I couldn t find the fix as I do not see any problem   Any help

User · Answer

This can also occur when the path ends in a '' followed by the closing quotation mark. e.g. The following line is passed as one of the arguments and this is not right:

"c:\users\abc\"

instead pass that argument as shown below so that the last backslash is escaped instead of escaping the quotation mark.

"c:\users\abc\\"

User · Answer

Look closely at the two dashes in  unzipRelease    Src   ReleaseFile  -Dst   Destination    This first one is not a normal dash but an en-dash   amp ndash  in HTML   Replace that with the dash found before Dst

User · Answer

This error will also occur if you call  ps1 file from a  bat file and file path has spaces   The fix is to make sure there are no spaces in the path of  ps1 file

User · Answer

In your script  why are you using single quotes around the variables  These will not be expanded  Use double quotes for variable expansion or just the variable names themselves   unzipRelease    Src   ReleaseFile  -Dst   Destination    to   unzipRelease    Src   ReleaseFile  -Dst   Destination

User · Answer

In my specific case of the same issue  it was caused by not having the Powershell script saved with an encoding of Windows-1252 or UFT-8 WITH BOM

[powershell] powershell is missing the terminator: "

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