How to save github secrets content in a file in github action

Question

I was trying to do the following :

echo ${{secrets.key}} > myfile

But unfortunately, this doesn't work since myfile would be empty after this when i checked. How do i save the content of github secret into a file ?

Answer 1

You could upload the file as an artifact , then you could see the secret variable value after downloading the artifact.

Here is an example:

name: get secrets
on:
  push:
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: print secrets
      run: |
          echo $SECRET_KEY >> file.txt
          cat file.txt
      shell: bash
      env:
        SECRET_KEY : ${{secrets.MY_SECRET}}
    - name: Upload a Build Artifact
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
      with:
       name: SECRET_KEY
       path: file.txt

Reference from the Github Community