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Main Article Use the .NET WebClient Class in PowerShell Scripts to Access Web Data

Windows PowerShell exposes traditional shell environment variables on a drive named env. So, for example, the %TEMP% variable in a Cmd.exe shell can be found at env:\temp in PowerShell. You can access the contents of this variable using the Get-Content cmdlet:< . . .

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