Are you trying to get the shell to expand $PATH but not Julia? On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Christian Theil Have < christiantheilh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've been trying to create a shell command that refers to an environment > variable, e.g., > > echo $PATH > > Julia will interpolate $ in shell commands in backticks to Julia > variables, i.e., `echo $PATH`, will look for a Julia variable PATH. > What can I do if I really want to insist having a shell command that > includes a (non-quoted) dollar-sign? Currently, > my workaround is `sh -c "echo \$PATH"`, but this is not really > satisfactory. > > Best, > Christian >
