GitLab CI syntax to write FOR loop statement? - gitlab

Question

Below is the script mentioned in the gitlab-ci.yml file. This GitLab CI configuration is valid. But, when the CI/CD build is run, the job fails. Is it something to do with the FOR loop syntax?
deploy_dv:
stage: deploy_dv
variables:
GIT_STRATEGY: none
script:
- echo "Deploying Artifacts..."
- echo "Configure JFrog CLI with parameters of your Artifactory instance"
- 'c:\build-tools\JFROG-CLI\jfrog rt config --url %ARTIFACTORY_WEBSITE% --user %ARTIFACTORY_USER% --apikey %APIKEY%'
- 'cd ..\artifacts'
- 'SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION'
- FOR %%i in (*) do (
'c:\build-tools\curl\bin\curl.exe --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN:%HCA_ACCESS_TOKEN%" --insecure https://code.example.com/api/repository/tags/%CI_COMMIT_TAG% | c:\build-tools\jq\jq-win64.exe ".release.description" > temp.txt'
'set /p releasenote=<temp.txt'
'rem del temp.txt'
'set mydate=%DATE:~6,4%-%DATE:~3,2%-%DATE:~0,2%'
'c:\build-tools\JFROG-CLI\jfrog rt u "%%i" %ARTIFACTORY_ROOT_PATH%/%PROJECT_NAME%/%%i --build-name=%%i --build-number=%BUILDVERSION% --props releasenote=%releasenote%;releaseversion=%BUILDVERSION%;releasedate=%mydate% --flat=false'
)
- '%CURL% -X POST -F token=%REPOSITORY_TOKEN% -F ref=master -F "variables[RELEASE]=false" -F "variables[PROGRAM]=test" --insecure https://code.example.com/api/repository/trigger'
only:
- /^(dv-)(\d+\.)(\d+\.)(\d+)$/
I get this below error:
$ echo "Deploying Artifacts..."
"Deploying Artifacts..."
$ echo "Configure JFrog CLI with parameters of your Artifactory instance"
"Configure JFrog CLI with parameters of your Artifactory instance"
$ c:\build-tools\JFROG-CLI\jfrog rt config --url %ARTIFACTORY_WEBSITE% --user %ARTIFACTORY_USER% --apikey %APIKEY%
Artifactory server ID [Default-Server]: $ cd ..\artifacts
$ SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
$ FOR %%i in (*) do ( 'c:\build-tools\curl\bin\curl.exe --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN:%HCA_ACCESS_TOKEN%" --insecure https://code.example.com/api/repository/tags/%CI_COMMIT_TAG% | c:\build-tools\jq\jq-win64.exe ".release.description" > temp.txt' 'set /p releasenote=<temp.txt' 'rem del temp.txt' 'set mydate=%DATE:~6,4%-%DATE:~3,2%-%DATE:~0,2%' 'c:\build-tools\JFROG-CLI\jfrog rt u "%%i" %ARTIFACTORY_ROOT_PATH%/%PROJECT_NAME%/%%i --build-name=%%i --build-number=%BUILDVERSION% --props releasenote=%releasenote%;releaseversion=%BUILDVERSION%;releasedate=%mydate% --flat=false' )
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
ERROR: Job failed: exit status 255

Answer 1

Since there is still no good answer to this question, I will give it a try. I used this snippet to start multiple Docker builds for every directory in my repository. Notice the |+ and the > characters, which lets you put multi-line commands in YAML and are part of GitLab syntax.
Linux example:
build:
stage: loop
script:
- |+
for i in $(seq 1 3)
do
echo "Hello $i"
done
Windows example:
build:
stage: loop
script:
- >
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%a in ("C:\Test\*.txt") do (
set FileName=%%~a
echo Filename is: !FileName!
)
endlocal

Answer 2

Here is a working example of a job in a .gitlab-ci with a loop running on GNU/Linux OS and using Sh/Bash shell :
edit:
stage: edit
script:
- for file in $(find ${CI_PROJECT_DIR} -type f -name deployment.yml)
do
CURRENT_IMAGE=$(grep "image:" $file | cut -d':' -f2- | tr -d '[:space:]' | cut -d':' -f3)
sed -ie "s/$CURRENT_IMAGE/$VERSION/g" "$file"
done
only:
- master
I'm not an expert on Gitlab-Runner on Windows but Windows Batch is default shell used but you can also use Powershell.

Answer 3

In .gitlab.yml anything you write under "script" is shell. Thus for loop will be same as it works in shell script.
for var in ${NAME_1} ${NAME_2} ${NAME_3} ; do
*----computations----*
done