How to detect Powershell nesting within Powershell?

Question

Is it possible to detect from within Powershell whether it is a nested shell?

If I open a Powershell or cmd.exe window, and then type powershell <enter> in there, is there a magic $host.somevariable I can query to find out if it is an "inner" shell?

Roman Kuzmin · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-07 19:29:51Z

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There is no such a magic variable, more likely. But it is possible to get this information:

$me = Get-WmiObject -Query "select * from Win32_Process where Handle=$pid"
$parent = Get-Process -Id $me.ParentProcessId
if ($parent.ProcessName -eq 'powershell') {
    'nested, called from powershell'
}
elseif ($parent.ProcessName -eq 'cmd') {
    'nested, called from cmd'
}
else {
    'not nested'
}

edited Dec 7, 2010 at 19:29

answered Dec 7, 2010 at 19:17

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