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Sinai R.
Sinai R.

Reputation: 33

Powershell envrionment variable inheritance

guys..i'm not familiar with PS and at beginning it was a simple question,but it's not so simple for me. (Sorry)

I need to take one environment variable as a string to another env. variable something like this sketch "$env:$env:var" I've tried (of course not working,but helps to understand):

$env:admin1 = "123456" 

$env:user = "admin1"

$password = $env:"${env:user}"

Write-Host $password

Is it possible in powershell? Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 303

Answers (1)

Spikeh
Spikeh

Reputation: 3695

It's not possible the way you're doing it, but you can query the environment and match the variable name from a variable a number of different ways. Here's one:

$appData = 'APPDATA'
$value = (Get-ChildItem Env: | ? { $_.Name -eq $appData }).Value
$value # Output

Upvotes: 3

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