Simple GitHub Action to copy a folder or single file to a remote server using SSH. This is working with the latest GitHub Actions.
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
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Check out the workflow example for a minimalistic yaml workflow in GitHub Actions.
Result
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
This thing is build using Typescript and ssh2 (via node-ssh). 🚀