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Till Schulte
Till Schulte

Reputation: 43

How do I get environment variables for the current user in Windows (SHELL)?

you probably know, that you can see your windows environment variables in a gui looking like this:

Image: img How do only get the variables in the top box?

What I tried: echo %path% in powershell or cmd: it combines the entry for path of both boxes.

How can I prevent that and only see the contents of the top path variable?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1424

Answers (2)

Scepticalist
Scepticalist

Reputation: 3923

You can use the .NET method for both User and System ("Machine")

[Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariables("User")

Upvotes: 2

postanote
postanote

Reputation: 16086

So, there are several ways to get this info... cmd.exe / PowerShell.exe

# CMD
For /F "Skip=2Tokens=1-2*" %A In ('Reg Query HKCU\Environment /V PATH 2^>Nul') Do @Echo %A=%C

# Or this...
reg query HKCU\Environment /v PATH



# PowerShell
(Get-Item -Path HKCU:\Environment).GetValue('PATH', $null, 'DoNotExpandEnvironmentNames')

# Or this
(Get-ItemProperty HKCU:\Environment).PATH

# Or just the path from from what Scepticalist shows
([Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariables("User")).Path

Upvotes: 1

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