Package: ipython3 Version: 2.3.0-2 An recent update of some other component seems to break passing of python variables to the environment of a shell command.
When invoking ipython we see that it is working as expected: In [1]: var = "env" In [2]: !echo $var is env env is env Behaviour when invoking ipython3: In [1]: var = "env" In [2]: !echo $var is env is env