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sglines
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Jul 05, 2022
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Issue combining variable and strings to create an environment variable output

I'm trying to combine some variable and string values in a script so that when the final environment variable is declared, PowerShell recognizes it.   For example, the output of:      ...
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    LainRobertson
    Jul 06, 2022

    sglines 

     

    While I don't understand the use case, if you're contrived example is attempting to concatenate "User" and "Profile" whilst using $env, you can achieve this using the following (based on your initial example.)

     

    $Profile = "Profile";
Invoke-Expression -Command "`$env:User$Profile";

     

    Cheers,

    Lain

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LainRobertson
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Jul 06, 2022

sglines 

 

While I don't understand the use case, if you're contrived example is attempting to concatenate "User" and "Profile" whilst using $env, you can achieve this using the following (based on your initial example.)

 

$Profile = "Profile";
Invoke-Expression -Command "`$env:User$Profile";

 

Cheers,

Lain

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sglines
Copper Contributor
Jul 06, 2022
That absolutely worked. I really appreciate the input!

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