Version number as a variable in a shell script

Question

I’m using a semver resource where the version number is stored in git. Now I want to use the version number in the filename of the build file that is stored in a S3 bucket. We have the pipeline pointing to a separate task-file which points to a shell script. It is in that shell script that I want to use the version as a variable. Now in the shell file the version variable is replaced by the literal argument text [version/number] instead of with the actual version number.

How would I use the version number from the resource in this case?

Well I want to use a version number like so: tar -cf ../filename-${1}.tar — Corné den Hollander, Oct 08 '17 at 17:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '17 at 00:48

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The version number will be stored in a file called <version-resource-name>/version in the task container, so to access the version number you will want to cat that file.

For example, if have a job that gets a version resource.

get: my-version

I can access the version number in my task.sh with:

VERSION="$(cat my-version/version)"

answered Oct 12 '17 at 00:48

Josh Zarrabi

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Oh and I got the same answer here as well: https://github.com/concourse/semver-resource/issues/48 – Corné den Hollander Oct 13 '17 at 06:07

Version number as a variable in a shell script

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