Get-MyVariable2.ps1
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Function Get-MyVariable { [cmdletbinding()] [OutputType([System.Management.Automation.PSVariable])] [Alias("gmv")] Param( [Parameter(Position = 0)] [ValidateSet("Global", "Local", "Script", "Private", 0, 1, 2, 3)] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string]$Scope = "Global", [switch]$NoTypeInformation ) if ($psise) { Write-Warning "This function is not designed for the PowerShell ISE." } else { Write-Verbose "Getting system defined variables" #get all global variables from PowerShell with no profiles $psvariables = powershell -noprofile -COMMAND "& {GET-VARIABLE | select -expandproperty name}" Write-Verbose "Found $($psvariables.count) initial state variables" <# find all the variables where the name isn't in the variable we just created and also isn't a system variable generated after the shell has been running and also any from this function #> Write-Verbose "Getting current variables in $Scope scope" $variables = Get-Variable -Scope $Scope Write-Verbose "Found $($variables.count)" Write-Verbose "Filtering variables" #define variables to also exclude $skip = "LastExitCode|_|PSScriptRoot|skip|PSCmdlet|psvariables|variables|Scope|this" #filter out some automatic variables $filtered = $variables | Where-object {$psvariables -notcontains $_.name -AND $_.name -notmatch $skip} if ($NoTypeInformation) { #write results with not object types $filtered } else { #add type information for each variable Write-Verbose "Adding value type" $filtered | Select-Object Name, Value, @{Name = "Type"; Expression = {$_.Value.GetType().Name}} } Write-Verbose "Finished getting my variables" } } #end function |