CreateStartScripts in Application plugin escapes $ whether you want it to or not

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Traditionally, our application startup script has used a shell variable in the JVM options to supply an ID to our application. E.g.

-DappId=$appId

Recently, we switched to Gradle and began using the Appliation plugin to generate our startup scripts. However, the CreateStartScripts task is escaping every $ to $. In our case, we don’t want it to. It would be useful if the task had an option like “dontEscapeShellVariables” or something that could toggle this.

2

Can you provide steps to reproduce please. There’s a number of ways to supply JVM options that the application plugin’s start scripts might be involved in so I’d like narrow it down.

3

Sure, we just have this in our application’s build.gradle

startScripts {
    defaultJvmOpts = ['-DinstanceId=$instanceId']
}
4

Oh, and we create the scripts themselves by running the distTar task, although the same scripts are generated when you run the install distZip and install tasks.

5

Raised as GRADLE-3084.

6

I had some spare time and thought I would take a stab at this. I created a pull request https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/422