Powershell - Appending folder to path

The following Powershell function can be used to append a folder to the path for a user at the command line.

function AppendPath($filePath) {
 $path = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path")
 $path += ";" + $filePath
 [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $path)
 Write-Host $path 
}

To call this function, just run the Powershell command:

AppendPath "c:\temp"

You can add this file into your $profile file as a function for easy availability. Run . $profile to reload your $profile file. This will append the folder "c:\temp" to your environment variable PATH. To view your environment variable PATH just enter:

echo $env:path

It is not required, but you can also use Chocolatey's refreshenv script to force update the environment variable if it is still not updating.

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