How to set a variable from a multiline file in GitHub

distro_dave

This is more a bash scripting question. I'm trying to set a variable from a multiline file in GitHub. cat config.yaml | gh variable set TEST --org .... --body - ...but this sets the value as '-' It's the same thing with: gh variable set TEST --org .... --body - < config.yaml and this cat config.yaml | gh variable set TEST --org .... --body '$(cat config.yaml)' sets the value literally as $(config.yaml) How can I set the contents of this file in...

Originally asked by Serve Laurijssen on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The gh variable set docs show this example: # Read variable value from a file $ gh variable set MYVARIABLE < myfile.txt So I'd imagine in your case you could just do: < config.yaml gh variable set TEST --org .... # or equivalently gh variable set TEST --org .... < config.yaml The code uses io.ReadAll , so it should read the complete input (except for trimming trailing newlines, which command substitution will also do).

Full answer by muru: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1567217 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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