var

The var instruction sets value of a variable.

var <name>="<value>"

The value can be an expression involving strings and other variables.

var foo="bar"
var myvar=foo + "baz"

A few special variables are implicitly defined:

• last - Output of last executed command
• spoonversion - Version string of the binary
• year - Current year
• month - Current month number
• day - Curent day number
• hour - Current hour
• minute - Current minute
• second - Current second
• dateiso - Current date in yyyyMMdd format
• date - Current date
• time - Current time

For programs started in the build container, variables are available as environment variables.

var version = ""
using python
  cmd python getLatestVersion.py
  var version = last

using wget
  cmd wget https://example.com/application-%version%.exe

meta name = "application"
meta tag = version