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Our company main Wifi ssid is called "#TestRIG". I need to switch SSIDs during the automation test frequently. I tried the command as below.

netsh wlan connect name="#TestRIG"
netsh wlan connect name=^#TestRIG
netsh wlan connect name=\#TestRIG

None of them worked.

C:\Users\admin>netsh wlan connect name=^#TestRIG There is no profile "" assigned to the specified interface.

C:\Users\admin>netsh wlan connect name="#TestRIG" There is no profile "" assigned to the specified interface.

Can anyone help to get the command to escape hash symbol?

Lior Bar-On
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jinhua
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    Keep in mind that `name` does not take the SSID. In most cases profile name and SSID are the same, but not always. – Clijsters Apr 28 '16 at 10:25

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Not an elegant solution, but you could utilize the built-in "exec" command in netsh referring to a file. Example in PowerShell:

@"
wlan connect name="#TestRIG"
"@ | out-file c:\temp\netsh.txt -encoding ascii

netsh exec c:\temp\netsh.txt
Lior Bar-On
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eldar
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I had a similar issue this week and I couldn't find any reference about which escape character to use. I solved using wildcards. It is possible to use '*' or '?' wildcards: e.g:

netsh wlan connect name="*#TestRIG"
netsh wlan connect name="?TestRIG"
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