Can't run my script because Powershell read "-" as –

Question

This is what I'm trying to run

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | where-object {$_.name –notlike "store"} | Remove-AppxPackage 2>&1 | Out-Null

And this is the error message I keep getting

At C:\Users\JKaw\Desktop\AfterFormat\Win10Tweaks.ps1:262 char:51 + ... ct {$_.name –notlike "store"} | Remove-AppxPackage 2>&1 | Out-Nul ...

–notlike > –notlike

Is there any workaround for this? I looked for a bit but didn't find any solution!

Answer 1

Don't copy commands off websites into a console. Retype them.

You have copied the command, including the dash character which a website turned into a fancy Unicode dash just because it could (I'm looking at you, Wordpress), into a non-Unicode-aware console.

This causes the UTF-8-encoded bytes that make up the character to be interpreted as ANSI (in whatever codepage).