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How to create environment variables and assign values to them with PowerShell. |
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How to Setup a Environmental Variables
Create a persistent/permanent environmental variable for the current user only.
Open PowerShell as an administrator. (See How to Run PowerShell Scripts)
Enter the following command:
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[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Your_Environment_Variable_Here",
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"your_value_here",
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"User")
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Your_Environment_Variable_Here", "your_value_here", "User")
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Replace '
Your_Environment_Variable_Here' with the appropriate variable name
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e.g.; CONNECTED_ACU_API_PASSWORD, CONNECTED_ACU_API_VENDOR_KEY
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, CONNECTED_ACU_API_USER_KEY)
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Replace '
your_value_here'with the respective values for the
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variable.
How to Display / Echo the Value of Environmental Variables
You can check if the environment variable was created
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with the echo command
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echo .
echo $env:Your_Environment_Variable_Here
Repeat the process for EACH of the necessary environment variables to run the code (CONNECTED_ACU_API_PASSWORD, CONNECTED_ACU_API_VENDOR_KEY, CONNECTED_ACU_API_USER_KEY).
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ChatGPT 3.5 Answer
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[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable Syntax
Scope of Environment Variable
User Scope: Applies to the current user only.
Machine Scope: Applies to all users on the machine.
Process Scope: Applies only to the current PowerShell process
Examples
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Setting a |
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user-level persistent environment variable |
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[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PersistentVar', 'Persistent Value', 'User') # |
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Setting |
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Replace "MY_VARIABLE" with the name of your variable and "my_value" with the desired value.
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a machine-level persistent environment variable
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PersistentVar', 'Persistent Value', 'Machine') |
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$env:TEMP_VAR = "temp_value"
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This variable will not persist after the PowerShell session ends.