Cleaning up project directory and file based variables 00:01 ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

Question

I started learning gitlab-ci using a course on udemy. Below code is absolutely similar to the master's code but his code run correctly but my code release error. what is wrong with below code:

stages:
  - build
  - test
  
build the car:
  stage: build
  script:
    - mkdir build
    - touch car.txt
    - echo "chassis" >> car.txt
    - echo "engine" >> car.txt
    - echo "wheels" >> car.txt
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - build/

test the car:
  stage: test
  script:
    - ls    
    - test -f build/car.txt
    - cd build
    - ls
    - cat car.txt
    - grep "chassis" car.txt
    - grep "engine" car.txt
    - grep "wheels" car.txt

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Answer 1

You are creating the build directory but your car.txt is at the root folder, therefore not part of the artifact and not existing in the test stage.

Your structure now:

.
├── /build
├── car.txt

How it should be

.
├── /build
│   └── car.txt

You should refactor all car.txt related commands to build/car.txt .

If you are doing an udemy course, you might wanna have a look at variables so that you can assign the filepath to a variable and don't run into problems if you need to relate to the same path in different commands.