On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Ketan Maheshwari
<ketancmaheshwari@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

This is a security feature I think - or it may just need escaping as \$

Since you are writing the script, why not pass in the environment
variable name without the dollar?

Peter