List all previously-loaded PowerShell variables

Question

Is there a PowerShell command to list all previously loaded variables?

I am running some PowerShell scripts in Visual Studio and would like to list all variables that are available in the current PowerShell session.

I have tried the command:

ls variable:*; 

But it returns the following:

System.Management.Automation.PSVariable System.Management.Automation.PSVariable System.Management.Automation.PSVariable System.Management.Automation.PSVariable System.Management.Automation.PSVariable System.Management.Automation.PSVariable System.Management.Automation.PSVariable System.Management.Automation.PSVariable System.Management.Automation.PSVariable System.Management.Automation.PSVariable 

Answer 1

ls variable:* should work, or Get-Variable. If these are resulting in bad output, it's due to a poorly-implemented host, not with powershell itself. If you open the standard console host (run powershell.exe), you will see that these work fine.

If you need to work around a bad host, you might have better luck dumping everything to explicit strings:

Get-Variable | Out-String 

or

Get-Variable |%{ "Name : {0}`r`nValue: {1}`r`n" -f $_.Name,$_.Value }