How to pass custom variables from TFS 2015 Build definition for shell shell script?

Question

I am working on vNext TFS 2015 builds. How can we pass a custom variable from vNext build to a shell shell script? I add a powershell script as a step in the build definition.

Answer 1

You can define assembly variables and then refer to them in the PowerShell task in arguments. For example, if my powershell script took the foo parameter, I could do this:

Answer 2

You can access the following user V variables in the power shell, as shown below,

Example:

$env:foo 

In your case,

 blah.ps1 -foo $env:foo