PowerShell: Session Environment Variable

By Xah Lee. Date: .

💡 TIP: Windows environment variable names are case-insensitive.

Show All Environment Variables

# show all environment variables
dir env:
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# show env vars whose name contains path
dir env:*path*

Set Environment Variable for current session

# sets env var named xx for current session
$env:xx = "alice"
# get value of a env var name xx
$env:xx

Remove Environment Variable for current session

# remove the env var xx from the current session
Remove-Item env:xx

PowerShell: Environment Variable