Hello all:<div><br></div><div>There are times when I want to explore data produced inside my local galaxy site without using galaxy tools.  For example, I may want to run a custom script or even just a grep type function from the command line on a couple CuffDiff output files to get an idea of whats inside.  </div>
<div><br></div><div>This requires a way to get the absolute path to that dataset as it lives in galaxy&#39;s internal structure.  The only way that I have found to do this is to place this dataset in the shared_data/data_libraries and then view this dataset&#39;s info as admin.  This is not practical for the types of things I want to do (simple one-off old-school command line investigations on arbitrary files).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there a way for me to add this info to the standard &quot;view info&quot; page format of datasets so that I can do this sort of thing easily?  Mind you, I am not planning to alter the data in galaxy, just look at it and sometimes dump a summary table to a folder outside of galaxy&#39;s domain.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Gus</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><font>In science, &quot;fact&quot; can only mean &quot;confirmed 
                      to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional 
                      assent.&quot; I suppose that apples might start to rise 
                      tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time 
                      in physics classrooms. <br><i>-Stephen Jay Gould</i></font><br>
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