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Access notebooks parameters from a bash cell

jollymon — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:42:31 GMT

How can I access a notebook parameter from a bash cell (%sh)? For python I use dbutils.widgets.get('param'), and for SQL I can use :param. Is there a something similar for bash?

Re: Access notebooks parameters from a bash cell

szymon_dybczak — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:17:48 GMT

Hi @jollymon ,

I believe there is no direct way to do this. But maybe there are some workarounds though. You can try to read widgets in python and set those values as envrionment variables. Then you can use shell to read that variables. Something like below (except in python try to read widget value)

%python import os l =['A','B','C','D'] os.environ['LIST']=' '.join(l)print(os.getenv('LIST'))

%sh for i in $LIST do echo $i done

Re: Access notebooks parameters from a bash cell

jollymon — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:46:20 GMT

That works. I suppose that's what I'll need to do then.

Thanks.

Re: Access notebooks parameters from a bash cell

szymon_dybczak — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:00:25 GMT

No problem, glad that it worked for you