I don't know but if there's no clear explanation for this then this might be
a bug.

the problem is I'm trying to rename a file that has the square brackets in
its name, it's named '[Cover.jpg]' without the quotes ofcourse.

I used TAB for autocompleting the filename to construct the following
command

Rename-Item '`[Cover`].jpg Cover.jpg

Apparently it used ` as an escape sequence. Anyway, I get the following
error

Rename-Item : An Object at the specified path H:\Test\`[Cover`].jpg does not
exist



I even tried to remove the escape character but I still get the same error!

What's wrong?

In PowerShell 1.0 RTM you need to use double quotes to avaluate escaping :

PoSH> '`[Cover`]'
`[Cover`]
PoSH> "`[Cover`]"
[Cover]

(Seem's the tabcompletion is not updated for this.)

Greetings /\/\o\/\/

"Ahmed Sobhi" wrote:

> I don't know but if there's no clear explanation for this then this might be
> a bug.
>
> the problem is I'm trying to rename a file that has the square brackets in
> its name, it's named '[Cover.jpg]' without the quotes ofcourse.
>
> I used TAB for autocompleting the filename to construct the following
> command
>
> Rename-Item '`[Cover`].jpg Cover.jpg
>
> Apparently it used ` as an escape sequence. Anyway, I get the following
> error
>
> Rename-Item : An Object at the specified path H:\Test\`[Cover`].jpg does not
> exist
>
> I even tried to remove the escape character but I still get the same error!
>
> What's wrong?
>