title: What does single-quoting do in Windows batch files?
body: <p>I recently ran a command in windows cmd with single quotes in it and found that it did not behave as I expected.</p>
  
  <p>From trying to google "windows batch single quote vs double quote" I've found a few articles where people asked about having windows treat single quotes like double quotes, and about how bash treats single quotes and double quotes differently. However, I couldn't easily find an explicit explanation of what single quotes do in windows batch commands.</p>
  
  <p>So what do single quotes do in windows batch files? Do they perform any sort of quoting functionality at all?</p>