Perhaps not quite what you had in mind, but `echo $ENV["PATH"]`
should work On Wednesday, 2 November 2016 10:43:47 UTC, Christian Theil Have 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 >