TeamCity - using setParameter to pass information between build steps

Question

I must be doing something differently than what was asked and answered here because the solution does not appear to be working for me: TeamCity, passing an id generated in o

Answer 1

It has to be printed to STDOUT, I use cat with heredoc to avoid having to escape single quotes in the event of using variables to dynamically set config parameters. What is heredoc?

MYVARNAME=MYVALUE
cat <

Result:

##teamcity[setParameter name='myConfParameter' value='MYVALUE']

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