[galaxy-user] tool.xml "&>" console redirection within command-tag

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Appelt, Uwe
<uwe.appelt at nct-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> that has probably been asked 10e6 times, however, I don't find any comments on how to properly escape special characters in a toolxy.xml. What I want to achieve is the following:
>
> <command interpreter="bash">$myScript &> $logFile</command>
>
> where myScript is dynamically created (as part of the configfiles-section) and the logFile is where stderr and stdout should go to. Now the problem is obviously the "&"-character, because it causes the following error-msg on reloading the toolxy.xml:
>
> ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 5, column 50
>
> where the 5/50 refers to the "&"-character. By the way: redirecting either stdout or stderr by specifying just ">" (instead of "&>") works fine.
>
> I tried a lot of different notations in the meanwhile, but neither something like "\&>" nor "\&amp;>" works. Any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks in advance and Cheers!
> Uwe

Don't you need to escape both the & and the > characters here? i.e.
&amp;&gt; should work.

Peter