Missing Octopus.Tentacle.Agent.ProgramDirectoryPath variable

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Hi,

In my step I’m trying find the location of Octostache.dll and wanted to use $OctopusParameters[‘Octopus.Tentacle.Agent.ProgramDirectoryPath’]. The problem is this variable seems to be missing when the step runs. Is the documentation (http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/System+variables) out of date?

I attached the output from a script run from the management console. The script was:
$OctopusParameters

Log.txt (4 KB)

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Hi,

Thanks for getting in touch!

Looks like you’ve stumbled upon a bit of a bug, I’ve gone through the code and cannot find anywhere where we actually populate this variable.

Instead of using that particular system variable, you can use env:TentacleExecutablePath, this is the full path to Tentacle.exe so you would need to do a bit more work to just get the folder.

Hope that helps!

Thank you and kind regards,
Henrik

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Code snippet to get the parent folder of Tentacle.exe

[System.IO.DirectoryInfo]$TentacleExecutablePath = $env:TentacleExecutablePath
$TentacleExecutablePath.Parent.FullName