PowerShell: Setting an environment variable for a single command only

Question

On Linux, I can do:

$ FOO=BAR ./myscript

to call \"myscript\" with the environment variable FOO being set.

Is something similar pos

Answer 1

Generally, it would be better to pass info to the script via a parameter rather than a global (environment) variable. But if that is what you need to do you can do it this way:

$env:FOO = 'BAR'; ./myscript

The environment variable $env:FOO can be deleted later like so:

Remove-Item Env:\FOO