How to set a dated file name using workspaces and environment variables
You can use workspaces and environment variables to include a date in the filename.
For this, we will make use of the date and datetime commands, which come as standard in most *nix systems.
You can find an example `config.yml` file here:
# Use the latest 2.1 version of CircleCI pipeline process engine.
# See: https://circleci.com/docs/reference/configuration-reference/version: 2.1jobs:
say-date:
docker:
- image: cimg/base:stable
parameters:
date:
type: string
default: none
steps:
- checkout
- run:
name: set var
command: echo "export DATETIME=`date +%Y%m%d.%H%M`" >> $BASH_ENV
- run: echo "$DATETIME"
- run: mkdir -p workspace
- run: echo "export DATETIME=datetime.`date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S`" >>workspace/new-env-vars
- run: echo "export BOB=$BAZ" >> workspace/new-env-vars
- run: cat workspace/new-env-vars
- run: cat workspace/new-env-vars >> $BASH_ENV
- run: echo ${DATETIME:-NULL}
- run:
name: make test artifacts
command: |
mkdir /tmp/artifacts;
echo "my artifact files in a dir" > /tmp/artifacts/encap-staging-no-color_${DATETIME:-NULL}.txt
- store_artifacts:
path: /tmp/artifacts
- persist_to_workspace:
root: workspace
paths:
- new-env-varsworkflows:
say-date-workflow:
jobs:
- say-date