How to setblock a command block with a /summon command? [duplicate]

I'm trying to make a one command creation, so I need a /setblock command to set a command block with a /summon command. This is the command I'm using:

/setblock ~ ~1 ~ minecraft:command_block 4 replace {auto:0b,powered:0b,conditionMet:0b,Command:"/execute @e[type=Wolf,name=MiniMe] ~ ~ ~ /summon Wolf ~ ~ ~ {Owner:PLAYER_NAME,CustomName:"Mini"}",TrackOutput:0}

It keeps saying:

"Data tag parsing failed: Unexpected token 'M' at: Mini"}",TrackOutput:0"

When I use the /summon command normally it works fine! Please help.

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Best Answer

The first quotation mark you use opens the string, and thus the very next un-escaped quotation mark will close it, which happens for your CustomName value. In order to avoid using a quotation mark to close the string, you must escape it by prepending it with a backslash (\").

If you need to use more quotation marks as part of the value at a deeper nesting within quotation marks, you'd need to apply more backslashes. The equation for the number of backslashes is 2n+1 where n is the current number of backslashes. For example, if you need quotation marks within an already-escaped set of quotation marks that have 1 backslash, you would need 2*1+1 backslashes (3).

Fixed command applying the backslash:

/setblock ~ ~1 ~ minecraft:command_block 4 replace {auto:0b,powered:0b,conditionMet:0b,Command:"/execute @e[type=Wolf,name=MiniMe] ~ ~ ~ /summon Wolf ~ ~ ~ {Owner:PLAYER_NAME,CustomName:\"Mini\"}",TrackOutput:0}

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Answer 2

The problem is, that you are basically closing the command that would go into the command block with the " preceding Mini. Since you don't have any spaces in the custom name you can do this:

/setblock ~ ~1 ~ minecraft:command_block 4 replace {auto:0b,powered:0b,conditionMet:0b,Command:"/execute @e[type=Wolf,name=MiniMe] ~ ~ ~ /summon Wolf ~ ~ ~ {Owner:PLAYER_NAME,CustomName:Mini}",TrackOutput:0}

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