{"id":4048,"date":"2013-03-08T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/03\/08\/powertip-easily-find-the-value-of-a-powershell-variable\/"},"modified":"2013-03-08T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-easily-find-the-value-of-a-powershell-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-easily-find-the-value-of-a-powershell-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Easily Find the Value of a PowerShell Variable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to return only the value of a Windows PowerShell variable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to return only the value of a particular variable?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Variable<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, and specify the name of the variable and the&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;valueonly<\/strong>&nbsp;switch. This technique is shown here using the&nbsp;<strong>home<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>variable:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px\">PS C:\\&gt; Get-Variable -Name home -ValueOnly<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px\">C:\\Users\\ed.IAMMRED<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to return only the value of a Windows PowerShell variable. &nbsp;How can I use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to return only the value of a particular variable? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Variable&nbsp;cmdlet, and specify the name of the variable and the&nbsp;&ndash;valueonly&nbsp;switch. This technique is shown here using the&nbsp;home&nbsp;variable: PS C:\\&gt; Get-Variable -Name home -ValueOnly C:\\Users\\ed.IAMMRED<\/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-4048","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":"<p>Summary: Learn how to return only the value of a Windows PowerShell variable. &nbsp;How can I use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to return only the value of a particular variable? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Variable&nbsp;cmdlet, and specify the name of the variable and the&nbsp;&ndash;valueonly&nbsp;switch. This technique is shown here using the&nbsp;home&nbsp;variable: PS C:\\&gt; Get-Variable -Name home -ValueOnly C:\\Users\\ed.IAMMRED<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","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=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/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=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}