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Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by giobox on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:19PM (#37614774)
Executing bash statements/scripts/functions is the thing I struggle least with in GH actions personally, it's remarkably easy to execute shell steps. If you really want your entire build to be a shellscript the action executes, you can do just that with very little YAML.
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Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by Aeolun on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:36PM (#37619548)
Except it doesn’t execute quite like in bash, and every single command is it’s own little island.

So exporting an environment variable doesn’t work for example.

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Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by trallnag on Saturday September 23, 2023 @01:11PM (#37625187)
What are you talking about? You can put a whole Bash script into a single step.
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