andry81-devops/gh-action--check-os-version

GitHub composite action to check and read OS version details into variables. • :page_with_curl: https://github.com/andry81-stats/gh-action--check-os-version--gh-stats :page_with_curl:

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GitHub composite action to check and read OS version details into variables.

Warning Currently implemented ONLY a Linux version details check.

Tutorial to use with: https://github.com/andry81-devops/github-action-extensions

All tutorials: https://github.com/andry81/index#tutorials

gh-action--check-os-version@master

Features:

• Checks set of ways to read OS version details using input parameters:

  • gh-var-tags: runner-os

    ${{ runner.os }}

  • linux-files: /etc/os-release

    cat '/etc/os-release'

  • linux-commands: |
      echo "$ImageOS: $ImageVersion"
      lsb_release -a
      hostnamectl
      uname -r

    echo "$ImageOS: $ImageVersion"

    lsb_release -a

    hostnamectl

    uname -r

USAGE

Example snippet:

  steps:
    - name: check os version
      id: check-os-version
      uses: andry81-devops/gh-action--check-os-version@master
      with:
        gh-var-tags: runner-os
        linux-files: /etc/os-release
        linux-commands: |
          echo "$ImageOS: $ImageVersion"
          uname -r
          lsb_release -a
          hostnamectl

    - name: read and decode return values
      shell: bash
      env:
        check_os_version: ${{ steps.check-os-version.outputs.json-return-values }}
      run: |
        check_os_version="${check_os_version//$'\t'/\\t}"
        check_os_version="${check_os_version//$'\n'/\\n}"
        check_os_version="${check_os_version//$'\r'/\\r}"
        echo "check_os_version=$check_os_version" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
        echo "check_os_version=$check_os_version"
        echo "JSON_RETURN_VALUES=$JSON_RETURN_VALUES"

    - name: print return values
      shell: bash
      run: |
        check_os_version="$(echo -n "$check_os_version" | tr -d [:cntrl:])"
        
        jq <<< "$check_os_version"
        
        for key in $(jq -r "keys|.[]" <<< "$check_os_version"); do
          case "$key" in
            gh-vars)
              title_var="name"
              value_var="value"
              ;;
            linux-files)
              title_var="file"
              value_var="value"
              ;;
            linux-commands)
              title_var="line"
              value_var="out"
              ;;
          esac
        
          for i in $(jq -r ".\"$key\"|keys|.[]" <<< "$check_os_version"); do
            # suppress not zero exit code
            IFS=$'\n' read -r -d '' title value <<< $(jq -r ".\"$key\"[$i].$title_var,.\"$key\"[$i].$value_var" <<< "$check_os_version") || (( 1 ))
            value="${value//\\t/$'\t'}"
            value="${value//\\n/$'\n'}"
            value="${value//\\r/$'\r'}"
            value="${value//\\\"/\"}"
            value="${value//\\\\/\\}"
            echo ">$title:"$'\n'"$value"$'\n---'
          done
        done

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Note See REUSE section for details if you have multiple repositories and want to store all GitHub workflow scripts (.github/workflows/*.yml) in a single repository.

Known Issues

https://github.com/andry81-devops/github-action-extensions#known-issues

Last known issues updates

https://github.com/andry81-devops/github-action-extensions#last-known-issues-updates

Copyright and License

Code and documentation copyright 2022 Andrey Dibrov. Code released under MIT License