Windows user environment variable vs. system environment variable

Question

In Windows, is there any shell/PowerShell command to list user environment variable and system environment variable separately?

If I do -

SET TEMP
         


        

Answer 1

Use the following batch file:

@echo off
for /f "tokens=3 usebackq" %%a in (`reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" ^| findstr TEMP`)  do @echo System variable TEMP = %%a
for /f "tokens=3 usebackq" %%a in (`reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment" ^| findstr TEMP`)  do @echo Current user variable TEMP = %%a

To use from a command line replace %% with %.

Output:

System variable TEMP = %SystemRoot%\TEMP
Current user variable TEMP = %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp

Note that the HKEY_CURRENT_USER takes precedance (but for some reason %USERPROFILE% is expanded to a shortname when evaluating %TEMP%):

echo %USERPROFILE%
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\DavidPostill

echo %TEMP%
C:\Users\DAVIDP~1\AppData\Local\Temp