The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

New PowerShell content is being posted to the PowerShell Community blog where members of the community can create posts by submitting content in the GitHub repository.

Showing results for Automatic Variables - Scripting Blog [archived]

Aug 30, 2015

PowerTip: Retrieve Last Token with PowerShell

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to retrieve the last token and avoid retyping. I used Get-Process to view a process I launched, and later I wanted to stop the process. How can I do this without doing a lot of typing or creating new variables? The $$ automatic variab...