How to escape quotes using Powershell to Command line

[chippy33]

For a custom Everything search context menu I have been using powershell to send command line search syntax to everything64.exe (1.5a ).
To search inside file content the search syntax is:
content:<text>
The issue is that when the input text has spaces it needs escaped quotation marks when passed to Everything as quotes are stripped and spaces are treated as a new funcion.

From the command line

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Everything64.exe "C:\Scripts" -s content:"hello world"

is shown in the search bar of Everything as:

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C:\Scripts  content:hello world

You can use

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""" to escape a literal "

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Everything64.exe "C:\Scripts" -s content:""""hello world""""

correctly returns

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C:\Scripts  content:"hello world"

To execute the command in powershell I have tried many variations for escaping the quotes around $searchTerm but I either get an error in powershell or it is not passed correctly to Everything.

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Invoke-Expression "& `"$pathToEverything.exe`" `"$searchPath`" -s content:`"$searchTerm`""

Am I missing something really obvious here?

[void]

Please use #quot: to escape a literal quote from powershell.
#quot: is expanded by Everything to a literal quote when reading the command line.

Please try the following powershell call:

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Invoke-Expression "& `"$pathToEverything.exe`" `"$searchPath`" -s content:`"#quot:$searchTerm#quot:`""

#quot:
Powershell and sending a quoted path to everything search bar