JSON parameters are not parsed correctly using CMD

It seems to be parsing this incorrectly and I’m not sure why?

az vmss extension set --publisher Microsoft.Azure.Extensions --version 2.0 --name CustomScript --resource-group vmss-test-1 --vmss-name myscaleset --settings '{"commandToExecute": "apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install nginx"}'

az: error: unrecognized arguments: apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install nginx}'

[tjprescott]

For the meantime, I’ve confirmed this works:

python -m azure.cli vmss extension set --publisher Microsoft.Azure.Extensions --version 2.0 --name CustomScript -g tjp-vmss --vmss-name vmss1 --settings "{\"commandToExecute\": \"apt-get -y update ^&^& apt-get -y install nginx\"}"

You need to escape the & with ^, and you have to replace az with python -m azure.cli. I will see if we can fix this through a tweak to az.bat

[rgherta]

I am sorry for the flashback but I am having issues passing --indexing-policy to cosmosdb as a string. I get all sorts of errors. I saw this statement –settings @settings.json

But I do not understand how exactly should I use it… let’s say I save my json to disk as “C:\path\my.json” . How exactly do I pass this file as parameter? If I put the path as a string or not, it simply fails at first character, even less info compared to when I pass the json as string argument. What exactly is that fancy @ sign and what is the step by step procedure to give a disk file as argument to one of the azure cli commands.