What I'm trying to do is getting user's first name to be displayed ($GITLAB_USER_NAME variable stores users' names as: Lastname, Firstname, so e.g. Jones, Indiana):
deploy_to_server:
stage: deploy
when: manual
script:
- touch report.txt
- printf "Hello $($GITLAB_USER_NAME | awk '{ print $2 }').\n" >> report.txt
- cat report.txt
Any clue how to process the variable with awk so that it gives the desired output, Hello Indiana?
It turns out, in this case printf could be replaced with echo:
deploy_to_server:
stage: deploy
when: manual
script:
- touch report.txt
- echo "Hello $GITLAB_USER_NAME" | awk '{ print $1 " " $3 ".\n\n" }' >> report.txt
- cat report.txt
awk takes the first and the third column from the echoed string ([1]Hello [2]Jones, [3]Indiana), then I also added a space between words, and period followed by two newline characters.
In the end, the whole printout looks like this:
Hello Indiana.