PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How to do it...

Let's first list out the variables we have. This can be done in two ways:

• Using a cmdlet
• Using a provider

Let us first look at using the cmdlet to list out the variables built into PowerShell:

1. Open a Terminal window. If you have one open, restart PowerShell.
2. Find the cmdlet that works with variables:

PS> Get-Command -Noun Variable

Remember that the noun in a cmdlet is always singular. Therefore, it would be Variable and not Variables.

3. There are five cmdlets that deal with variables. We want to fetch a list of all variables already existing in a new session of PowerShell. Let us pick Get-Variable and fetch help information for it:

PS> Get-Help Get-Variable

4. This is the cmdlet that we need to list out all of the variables ...