How can I use Environment Variables in Script steps?

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You’re doing it almost good :wink:

What you have to know about Bash (it seems you use a Bash script here) is that env var (or any other variable, expansion, etc.) are not handled in single quoted strings. E.g.

echo '$HOME'

will print $HOME, while

echo "$HOME"

will print the value of $HOME (e.g. /Users/myuser).

So, in the case you posted:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST "https://our.build.server/rest/build-status/1.0/commits/$PRCommit" --data "{\"state\": \"INPROGRESS\", \"key\": \"$BITRISE_BUILD_NUMBER\", \"url\": \"$BITRISE_BUILD_URL\"}"

should work.

Note: you have to escape double quotes inside the double quoted string!

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