A simple GitHub Action for running a shell command in a loop against a list of items.
The items are comma and/or space-separated strings. Each item can be referenced in the command using $ITEM.
Looping through a space-separated list of items:
jobs:
build:
steps:
- name: 'Count from 1 to 10 with space-separated items'
uses: cliffano/command-loop-action@main
with:
items: '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10'
command: 'echo "Count $ITEM"'
Looping through a comma-separated list of items:
jobs:
build:
steps:
- name: 'Count from 1 to 10 with comma-separated items'
uses: cliffano/command-loop-action@main
with:
items: '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10'
command: 'echo "Count $ITEM"'
Looping through a comma and space-separated list of items:
jobs:
build:
steps:
- name: 'Count from 1 to 10 with comma and space-separated items'
uses: cliffano/command-loop-action@main
with:
items: '1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10'
command: 'echo "Count $ITEM"'
Looping through a list of items from an environment variable:
env:
NUMBERS: '1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10'
jobs:
build:
steps:
- name: 'Count from 1 to 10 with items from an environment variable'
uses: cliffano/command-loop-action@main
with:
items: ${{ env.NUMBERS }}
command: 'echo "Count $ITEM"'
Looping through a list of items with custom delimiters:
jobs:
build:
steps:
- name: 'Count from 1 to 10 with colon-separated items'
uses: cliffano/command-loop-action@main
with:
items: '1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9:10'
command: 'echo "Count $ITEM"'
delimiters: ':'
| Input | Type | Description | Required | Default | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| items | string | Comma and/or space-separated list of items, or custom delimiters | Yes | - | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
| command | string | Shell command to run in a loop, each run can access an item from the list via $ITEM | Yes | - | echo "Count $ITEM" |
| delimiters | string | Items string delimiters, separated by pipe character | No | , | |, |
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