Inline JSON help

When you work with Azure IoT CLI commands, be aware of how your shell uses quotation marks and escapes characters.

The following examples intend to be a starting point across supported shells

• For bash inline json format use '{"key" : "value"}' and \ (backslash) for command continuation:

• For powershell inline json format use '{\"key\":\"value\"}' and ` (backtick) for command continuation:

• For cmd inline json format use "{\"key\":\"value\"}" and ^ (caret) for command continuation:

Many IoT commands support file paths directly. File based input is useful because it avoids shell complexity. For commands that don't have file based input support, Azure CLI supports a global "@/path/to/file" syntax which reads content from file and injects it as the respective parameter argument.

For more information, please take a look at Use quotation marks in parameters.