May 2007
Beginner
320 pages
8h 23m
English
The environment provider in Windows PowerShell is used to provide access to the system environment variables. If you open a CMD (command) shell and type set, you will obtain a listing of all the environment variables defined on the system. If you use the echo command in the CMD shell to print out the value of %windir%, you will obtain the results seen in Figure 3-5.

Figure 3-5. Use set in a CMD prompt to see environment variables
Environment variables are used by various applications and other utilities as a shortcut to provide easy access to specific files, folders, and configuration data. By using the environment ...