TeamCity Command Line Runner: Setting and using variables
Within a TeamCity project running on a windows agent, I would like to read the contents of a file and then create a directory based on the file contents.
Performing this operation as a command line build step seems logical. I have tried creating a local variable "VERSION" as well as a custom teamcity parameter, but I can't get either to work. It does not seem that windows cmd variables are playing nicely with the TeamCity defined env and system variables. I am using the following custom script:
echo "Distributing"
set VERSION=< component_version.txt
echo %VERSION%
echo "Copying files to dir \path\to\dir\%VERSION%\"
mkdir \path\to\dir\%VERSION%\
Any suggestions on how I can achieve this?
Answer
You need to escape the variable with %% so it isn't treated as a TeamCity variable.
echo "Distributing"
set VERSION=< component_version.txt
echo %%VERSION%%
echo "Copying files to dir \path\to\dir\%%VERSION%%\"
mkdir \path\to\dir\%%VERSION%%\