GitLab CI syntax to write FOR loop statement?

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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
3 Answers

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

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.

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
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