Command Substitution does not work

[sakgoyal]

If I have something like this:

    - name: Create Pull Request
      uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
      with:
        commit-message: "Update Daily $(date -u +'%B %d, %Y')"
        title: "Update Daily $(date -u +'%B %d, %Y')"
        body: Automated daily update.

The substitution for the date does not work correctly.

I get this:

Which is clearly not intended.

How can I get this to work on a linux runner?

[peter-evans]

Hi @sakgoyal

I don't think command substitution works outside of run steps. You'll need to precompute this in a run step and use a variable when calling the Action. Please see here: https://github.com/peter-evans/create-pull-request/blob/main/docs/examples.md#dynamic-configuration-using-variables