{"id":3633,"date":"2013-05-13T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/05\/13\/powertip-use-set-variable-to-create-a-readonly-powershell-variable\/"},"modified":"2013-05-13T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-set-variable-to-create-a-readonly-powershell-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-set-variable-to-create-a-readonly-powershell-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use Set-Variable to Create a ReadOnly PowerShell Variable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Use the <\/span>Set-Variable<\/strong> cmdlet to create a <\/span>ReadOnly<\/strong> Windows PowerShell variable.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I create a ReadOnly<\/strong> variable in Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Set-Variable<\/strong> cmdlet to create a ReadOnly<\/strong> variable, and specify ReadOnly<\/strong> for the Option<\/strong> parameter, and you can specify a description for the variable:<\/p>\n

Set-Variable -Name myvariable -Value “value” -Description “mred variable” -Option readonly<\/p>\n

 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use the Set-Variable cmdlet to create a ReadOnly Windows PowerShell variable.  How can I create a ReadOnly variable in Windows PowerShell?  Use the Set-Variable cmdlet to create a ReadOnly variable, and specify ReadOnly for the Option parameter, and you can specify a description for the variable: Set-Variable -Name myvariable -Value “value” -Description “mred variable” -Option readonly  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use the Set-Variable cmdlet to create a ReadOnly Windows PowerShell variable.  How can I create a ReadOnly variable in Windows PowerShell?  Use the Set-Variable cmdlet to create a ReadOnly variable, and specify ReadOnly for the Option parameter, and you can specify a description for the variable: Set-Variable -Name myvariable -Value “value” -Description “mred variable” -Option readonly  <\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}