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# 📝 Prepare Env File Action
Effortlessly create or update your `.env` file and get its base64-encoded content ready for secure use in your workflows! 🚀🔐
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## ✨ Features
- 📄 **Automatic creation or updating** of your `.env` file.
- 🔑 **Easily set or update environment variables** like `STACK_NAME`.
- 📦 **Outputs base64-encoded content** for secure storage or transfer.
- 📋 **Detailed debug logs** for easy troubleshooting.
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## 📥 Inputs
| Input | Description | Required |
|----------------|-----------------------------------------------|----------|
| `stack_name` | The name of the stack to set in the `.env` file. | ✅ Yes |
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## 📤 Outputs
| Output | Description | Example |
|------------|-------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| `exists` | Indicates if `.env` file existed before running action | `true` or `false` |
| `content` | Base64-encoded content of the resulting `.env` file | `U1RBQ0tfTkFNRT1teS1zdGFjaw==` |
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## 🛠️ Example Usage
Here's how you can integrate this action into your workflow:
```yaml
- name: Prepare .env File 📝
id: prepare-env
uses: your-org/prepare-env-file@main
with:
stack_name: my-awesome-stack
- name: Use Encoded .env Content 🔐
run: |
echo "Encoded .env content: ${{ steps.prepare-env.outputs.content }}"
```
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## 🧑‍💻 How It Works
This action performs the following steps:
| Step | Description |
|------|-------------|
| 📄 | Checks if `.env` file exists; creates it if not. |
| 🔄 | Adds or updates the `STACK_NAME` variable in `.env`. |
| 📋 | Provides detailed debug logs showing all changes. |
| 🔐 | Outputs the base64-encoded content of the final `.env` file. |
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## 📖 Debugging & Logs
Detailed debug logs are provided at every step, making troubleshooting easy:
```
DEBUG: .env file exists. Updating STACK_NAME.
DEBUG: Updated existing STACK_NAME to 'my-awesome-stack'.
DEBUG: Final .env content:
STACK_NAME=my-awesome-stack
DEBUG: Successfully encoded .env file to base64.
```
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## ⚠️ Requirements
- Your workflow must have write permissions to the repository directory.
- Bash shell environment.
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## 📜 License
This action is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.
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Happy coding! 🎉
**Grand**
### Should probably use better alternatives like:
- https://github.com/marketplace/actions/configuration-variable-substitution
- https://github.com/marketplace/actions/substitute-action