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GitHub Action SCP

Simple GitHub Action to copy a folder or single file to a remote server using SSH. This is working with the latest GitHub Actions.

✨ Example Usage

Copy a folder recursively to a remote server

- name: Copy folder content recursively to remote
  uses: garygrossgarten/github-action-scp@release
  with:
    local: test
    remote: scp/directory
    host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
    username: ${{ secrets.SSH_USER }}
    password: ${{ secrets.PASSWORD }}

Copy a single file to a remote server

- name: Copy single file to remote
  uses: garygrossgarten/github-action-scp@release
  with:
    local: test/oof.txt
    remote: scp/single/oof.txt
    host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
    username: ${{ secrets.SSH_USER }}
    password: ${{ secrets.PASSWORD }}

🔐 Set your secrets here: https://github.com/USERNAME/REPO/settings/secrets.

Check out the workflow example for a minimalistic yaml workflow in GitHub Actions.

Result

result of example ssh workflow

Options

  • local - string - Path to local folder you want to copy. required

  • remote - string - Path to folder to copy the contents to. required

  • concurrency - number - Number of concurrent file transfers. Default: 1

  • recursive - boolean - Copy directory contents recursively. Default: true

  • verbose - boolean - Output every single file transfer status. Default: true

  • host - string - Hostname or IP address of the server. Default: 'localhost'

  • port - integer - Port number of the server. Default: 22

  • username - string - Username for authentication. Default: (none)

  • password - string - Password for password-based user authentication. Default: (none)

  • dotfiles - boolean - Include files with a leading . e.g. .htaccess Default: false

  • privateKey - mixed - Buffer or string that contains a private key for either key-based or hostbased user authentication (OpenSSH format). Default: (none)

  • passphrase - string - For an encrypted private key, this is the passphrase used to decrypt it. Default: (none)

  • tryKeyboard - boolean - Try keyboard-interactive user authentication if primary user authentication method fails. Default: false

  • atomicPut - boolean - Upload files to temporary file first, then rename once upload completed. Default: false

  • rmRemote - boolean - Clean directory before uploading. Default: false

Development


This thing is build using Typescript and ssh2 (via node-ssh). 🚀