Today I saw this on Twitter from Julie Blender (@#juneb_get_help):
Need to reference the "ProgramFiles(x86)" environment variable in #PowerShell? Use ${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}.
I use this in a lot of my scripts, but I want a single variable that contains the right value whether I'm in a 64 bit shell or not. Here's my solution:
First, I have a function in my testing profile called is64bit, that looks like this:
function is64bit { return ([IntPtr]::Size -eq 8) }
Next, I have a get-programfilesdir function that I call that checks whether or not I'm in a 64 bit shell or not and returns the appropriate program files environment variable (ie, if I'm running on a 64 bit machine it will return "C:\Program Files (x86)", but if I'm running on a 32 bit machine it will return "C:\Program Files". If I'm running in a 32 or 64 bit shell on a 64 bit machine, it will always return "C:\Program Files (x86)".
function get-programfilesdir { if (is64bit -eq $true) { (Get-Item "Env:ProgramFiles(x86)").Value } else { (Get-Item "Env:ProgramFiles").Value } }
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