Vista - how to set environment variable where name is not a-z nor A-Z

i need to set source.dir environment variable in my scripts, if I use

$env:source.dir=c:\source

i got error like "Property 'dir' cannot be found on this object."

Some one please help, thanks!

On 4 Dec 2006 11:43:45 -0800, hieulugia@gmail.com wrote:

>i need to set source.dir environment variable in my scripts, if I use
>
>$env:source.dir=c:\source
>
>i got error like "Property 'dir' cannot be found on this object."
>
>Some one please help, thanks!

The following should do what you want.

cd env:
new-item -path "source.dir" -value "C:\Source"

or

new-item -path "env:\source.dir" -value "C:\Source"

Andrew Watt MVP

Or, more simply:

${env:source.dir} = "c:\source"

Note that this also works with regular variables:

${variable with spaces} = "foo"

and even with files:

PS (1) > ${c:\a file.txt} = "Hello"
PS (2) > get-content "c:\a file.txt"
Hello

-bruce

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"Andrew Watt [MVP]" <SVGDeveloper@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On 4 Dec 2006 11:43:45 -0800, hieulugia@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>i need to set source.dir environment variable in my scripts, if I use
>>
>>$env:source.dir=c:\source
>>
>>i got error like "Property 'dir' cannot be found on this object."
>>
>>Some one please help, thanks!
>
> The following should do what you want.
>
> cd env:
> new-item -path "source.dir" -value "C:\Source"
>
> or
>
> new-item -path "env:\source.dir" -value "C:\Source"
>
> Andrew Watt MVP