Failing composite action verbatim from docs

[aleks-ivanov]

I just tried to create a composite action, using verbatim the code from the documentation, but I get two different error messages under windows and ubuntu runners:

Windows runner:

D:\a\_temp\d1b675e1-0df0-4b9d-8386-8fd25d8ff5e7.sh: line 1: D:a_actionsaleks-ivanovtest-actionmain/goodbye.sh: No such file or directory

Ubuntu runner:

/home/runner/work/_temp/9638bc2a-7e36-49bb-afc9-4509b4f153d0.sh: line 1: /home/runner/work/_actions/aleks-ivanov/test-action/main/goodbye.sh: Permission denied

I know the action is accessed and it executes, because it prints “Hello Mona the Octocat.” on both, as per this part of the action:

    - run: echo Hello ${{ inputs.who-to-greet }}.
      shell: bash

This is the code that is using the action:

      - id: foo
        uses: aleks-ivanov/test-action@main
        with:
          who-to-greet: 'Mona the Octocat'

What am I missing ?

[aleks-ivanov]

UPDATE:

made it work on “ubuntu-latest” by adding the “chmod +x goodbye.sh” to the action itself like this (ALTHOUGH, in the documentation it is not described that way):

    - run: |
        cd ${{ github.action_path }}
        chmod +x goodbye.sh
      shell: bash

However on “windows-latest”, the “cd ${{ github.action_path }}” returns and error that there is no such a directory:

D:\a\_temp\51f7870d-4631-483a-bc67-da3993b468e4.sh: line 2: cd: D:a_actionsaleks-ivanovtest-actionmain: No such file or directory

UPDATE 2:

made it work on “windows-latest” as well.

Turns out that “windows-latest” doesn’t work with ${{ github.action_path }}, so instead I used $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH, which apparently fixes the issue:

- name: Run tool's script
      run: $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH/csabd.sh

[ClydeDz]

I tried adding chmod to the same line but got this error chmod: cannot access '<value>': No such file or directory.

After splitting into two steps, it worked.

- run: chmod +x goodbye.sh
    shell: bash

- run: ./goodbye.sh ${{ inputs.parameter }}
    shell: bash

I believe the documentation should be updated to say that chmod is needed even in the action itself before running the shell script.