Sometimes it would be useful to identify the automatic PowerShell variables managed by PowerShell so you could differentiate between built-in variables and your own. Get-Variable always dumps all variables.
Here is a simple trick that uses a separate new and fresh PowerShell runspace to determine the built-in PowerShell variables:
# create a new PowerShell $ps = [PowerShell]::Create() # get all variables inside of it $null = $ps.AddCommand('Get-Variable') $result = $ps.Invoke() # dispose new PowerShell $ps.Runspace.Close() $ps.Dispose() # check results $varCount = $result.Count Write-Warning "Found $varCount variables." $result | Out-GridView
When you run this, the code reports the number of found variables, and the variables.
