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Can you point me to the action definition you're using? Or if its private repo copy it here? It sounds like the output of the git log is getting run as a command.

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@datapolitical can you provide your action? to me it looks like you're using the output as a step (which, obviously, will run them as if they're commands)

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I think I found this. In my examples I just "echo" the action output. Which you are correct, contains backticks so that the sha's render in monospace in the markdown. So when you echo this output in bash it tries to execute the backticks.

If you need to "echo" this you can use this instead:

- name: Get the changelog
  run: |
    cat << "EOF"
    ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.changelog }}
    EOF

Otherwise you can use it in other actions like I do to fill out say the GitHub Release Notes.

Please reopen this issue if this doesn't solve your issue.

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That makes sense. What I’m trying to do is follow your example here: #41

to reverse the output and remove lines that include “gh-pages”.

so I don’t need to output it specifically, I need to pipe it to

| sed -n '/gh-pages/!p' | tac

And then export that so I can use it in another step.

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Also I don’t see an option to re-open the issue…

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- name: Get the changelog
  run: |
    cat << "EOF" | sed -n '/gh-pages/!p' | tac
    ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.changelog }}
    EOF

This should work. Here is an example I tested locally.

 cat << "EOF" | sed -n '/gh-pages/!p' | tac
`hi`
`something` gh-pages
`cool`
EOF

`cool`
`hi`

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OK I've got that working, but how do I pipe that to an output so I can use it in a later step?

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At the moment I'm trying this:

run: | 
  LOG=$(cat << "EOF" | sed -n '/gh-pages/!p' | tac
  ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.changelog }}
  EOF
  )
  echo "::set-output name=changelog_final::$LOG"
id: parsedlog

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Stay tuned. Its not working for me either and I am pretty sure it should. Ticket into GitHub Support.

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So I was able to get this to work kind of:

 - name: Get the changelog
        id: parsedlog
        run: | 
          echo ::set-output name=changelog_final::$(cat << "EOF" | sed -n '/gh-pages/!p' | tac
          ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.changelog }}
          EOF
          )

      - name: Test Release Notes
        run: |
          echo "Release notes: ${{ steps.parsedlog.outputs.changelog_final}} "

Problem is that the output looks like this:

Release notes:  Gemfile Gemfile.lock Pipfile README.md _config.yml _config_dev.yml _data _plugins _posts android-chrome-192x192.png android-chrome-512x512.png apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png apple-touch-icon.png archive.html assets build crosswords.md diet.md drinks favicon.ico grady.md index.md manifest.json newsearch.md package.json posts.html recipes requirements.txt service-worker.js staticman.yml vendor [`a118319`](http://github.com/datapolitical/chrisfnicholson.github.io/commit/a118319b1e2988c4cc94b74da8b7c3d8b072b56e) - one more try

For some reason it's printing a list of all the files in the top level directory.

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I get this too. Its wild... Still waiting for support.

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It's the * before each line.

It doesn't show up in the output . I bet it's parsing it as "cat *", which for some reason is giving us the list of files rather than their contents.

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Ok this was wild. So this all started with backticks... and that should have tipped me off to suddenly all the files are showing up. Why? Globs. The * at the front of the markdown to indicate an list item. echo expands it. So I used noglob for a bit. Then said forget it. I took out all the markdown markup that will mess with a shell.

But that wasn't all. That fixed most of it. But what happened then was that the newlines between entries were getting eaten. An hour of messing around later and I find out that outputs in Actions don't support multiple lines but there is a work around. So I updated the readme to include an example that should work.

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Because the output of the action has changed I went ahead an cut a new major release. I don't think anyone relied on stars or backticks... but just in case. This should resolve #93.

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This worked great, thank you.

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