The subtle difference between -q and -Q: the latter will exit after executing the command (regardless of the SQL server version; I think this was introduced in SQL Server 2005 or 2000).
Inside the command, you can use single ' quotes for strings.
C:\Users\jeroenp>sqlcmd /? Microsoft (R) SQL Server Command Line Tool Version 10.50.2500.0 NT x64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. usage: Sqlcmd [-U login id] [-P password] [-S server] [-H hostname] [-E trusted connection] [-N Encrypt Connection][-C Trust Server Certificate] [-d use database name] [-l login timeout] [-t query timeout] [-h headers] [-s colseparator] [-w screen width] [-a packetsize] [-e echo input] [-I Enable Quoted Identifiers] [-c cmdend] [-L[c] list servers[clean output]] [-q "cmdline query"] [-Q "cmdline query" and exit] [-m errorlevel] [-V severitylevel] [-W remove trailing spaces] [-u unicode output] [-r[0|1] msgs to stderr] [-i inputfile] [-o outputfile] [-z new password] [-f | i:[,o:]] [-Z new password and exit] [-k[1|2] remove[replace] control characters] [-y variable length type display width] [-Y fixed length type display width] [-p[1] print statistics[colon format]] [-R use client regional setting] [-b On error batch abort] [-v var = "value"...] [-A dedicated admin connection] [-X[1] disable commands, startup script, enviroment variables [and exit]] [-x disable variable substitution] [-? show syntax summary]
–jeroen
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