Hi I’ve finally migrated my environment to PSU 3. Aside from minor glitches, I have one major problem. I was using Get-Variable to fetch secret variables by name, supplied from external source. I have hundreds of such secret variables and list is quite dynamic. Please advise if it’s possible to use…

If you upgrade to 3.4.2, then you can use Get-ChildItem to retrieve them dynamically. $SecretVariableName = "MySecret" Get-ChildItem "Secret:\$SecretVariableName"

It works, thanks a lot. BTW, it’s nice to see how fast I can add/remove secret variables after upgrade to PSUv3.

My secret-containing variables have hyphens in their names, breaking this syntax. Any suggestions in that case?

Get-Variable with Secret variables in PSU 3

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jwoerner March 17, 2023, 4:26pm 5

Answered in Scoped Variable with Hyphen in its Name - #2 by adam

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