Hi,

When creating files in my stackscript, for example:

   cat > $file << EOF
server {
   $DEP       80;
}

The stackscript variables like "$DEP" dont work. Instead I have to do this:

   local file=$1
   bash_dep="$DEP"
   cat > $file << EOF
server {
   $bash_dep       80;
}

Is this a bug, known feature or am I making a mistake? Its a bit annoying to have to do those extra equates in my code.

James

P.s Bonus question. Is it ok to use one stackscript variable within another one (i.e $VAR2 = $VAR1/folder)?

It's possible (I'm not sure, this is kind of a tricky area of shell scripting) that the command is running in a subshell environment. If that's the case, only those variables that have the export attribute are available in the subshell. Try this:

   export DEP
   cat > $file <<EOF
server {
   $DEP       80;
}
EOF

If this does what you want, then my guess was correct and you can use any stackscript variables you want by including a line like

export FOO BAR BAZ

before you want to use the variables. If it doesn't work, then I dunno.