Hi Ketan!

it sounds like your input is sanitized. You can disable it for your
whole wrapper or you can write a special sanitizer for your input field:

https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Tools/ToolConfigSyntax#A.3Csanitizer.3E_tag_set

Cheers,
Bjoern

> Hi,
>
>
> In a test tool that I am working on, I need to enter text preceded by
> a $ sign to be interpreted as an environment variable by the
> underlying running script. However, it seems that the $ sign gets
> converted to X when it gets passed to the tool executable.
>
>
> Is there a way to work around this or should I be doing something else
> to pass environment variables via Galaxy tool UI.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ketan
>
>
>
>

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