June 18, 2008

How to Access an Environment Variable Without Writing a Complete PowerShell Statement


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Windows PowerShell exposes traditional shell environment variables on a drive named env. So, for example, the %TEMP% variable in a Cmd.exe shell can be found at env:\temp in PowerShell. You can access the contents of this variable using the Get-Content cmdlet:< . . .

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