How do you preserve path slashes stored in a inject variable?

[Steve Messer]

When I save a path to the inject variable (save it to the associated file) and then retrieve it, all the the slashes have been stripped.

How do you preserve the slashes when retrieving the injected path?

SciptZipPath: C:\agent\xml-data\build-dir\UT-RPER348-OB1\DBScripts_2023.16.23680.25.zip

when read back in:

C:agent xml-data build-dir UT-RPER348-JOB1DBScripts_2023.16.23680.25.zip

Here is how I am saving the variable in a script task:

$scriptZipPath = Join-Path -Path $bambooWorkingDirectory -ChildPath $archiveName;

$scriptInjectPath = "${bamboo.build.working.directory}\bamboo\archive.properties";
$propertiesFile = New-Item -Path $scriptInjectPath -ItemType "file" -Force;
Add-Content $propertiesFile "zipPath=$scriptZipPath";

Testing reading back in as follows:

Write-Host ${bamboo.inject.zipPath};

[Eduardo Alvarenga · Accepted solution]

Hello @Steve Messer

When exporting the path, make sure to use double backslashes (\\). Bamboo is written in Java and all parsing depends on such language, which will consider two slashes as a single "\" character. If you specify just on backslash, it will be treated as a whitespace or linebreak.

In your case:

SciptZipPath: C:\\agent\\xml-data\\build-dir\\UT-RPER348-OB1\\DBScripts_2023.16.23680.25.zip

Kind regards,

Eduardo Alvarenga
Atlassian Support APAC

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[Steve Messer]

Yes, that was the issue, thanks

[Eduardo Alvarenga]

Thanks, @Steve Messer make sure to hit the Accept button so this answer can help others.

Cheers,

Eduardo Alvarenga
Atlassian Support APAC