Artifact

---

• In the first job we create a file called date.txt and save it as an artifact.
• Then we run 3 parallel jobs on 3 operating systems where we dowload the artifact and show its content.

examples/workflows/artifact.yml

name: OS and Perl Matrix

on: push

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Build
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: View environment
        run: |
          uname -a
          printenv | sort

      - name: Build
        run: |
          date > date.txt
          cat date.txt

      - name: Archive production artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: the-date
          path: |
            date.txt

  test:
    needs: build
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        runner: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
    runs-on: ${{matrix.runner}}
    name: OS ${{matrix.runner}}

    steps:
      - name: View environment
        if: ${{ ! startsWith( matrix.runner, 'windows-' )  }}
        run: |
          uname -a
          printenv | sort
          ls -l

      - name: Download a single artifact
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: the-date

      - name: View artifact on Linux and OSX
        if: ${{ ! startsWith( matrix.runner, 'windows-' )  }}
        run: |
          ls -l
          cat date.txt
          date

      - name: View artifact on Windows
        if: ${{ startsWith( matrix.runner, 'windows-' )  }}
        run: |
          dir
          type date.txt
          date