For CLI entered values, escape character for backslash '\' is not the expected '\\' but '\\\\' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-161 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-161 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Components: CLI Reporter: Vedran Mikulcic Assignee: Alexey Loubyansky Priority: Minor Fix For: 8.0.0.Alpha1 When trying to use the backslash-backslash escape sequence, backslash is ignored: {noformat} /subsystem=datasources/xa-data-source=MyDatabase/xa-datasource-properties=ServerName:add(value="MSSQLServer\\InstanceName") {noformat} this results in: {code} <xa-datasource-property name="ServerName">MSSQLServerInstanceName</xa-datasource-property>{code}