How to define variable in travis CI that will store Github command

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I am trying to create a CICD Pipeline using Travis CI, in which I am creating a tag on my Github using mvn release plugin.

After creation of a tag, I want to deploy the file created under the tag on my environment. The tag name and the file name is same. For example, demo-1.0.1-app.jar and tag name is also the same, demo-1.0.1-app. The file is created under the target folder and I am able to deploy it using a maven command mvn deploy -Dartifact=target/demo-1.0.1-app.jar.

But to automate this I was trying to create a variable in the travis.yml file which would contain git command git describe --abbrev=0 --tags so that I can pass this variable as file name:

env: 
      - version = $(git describe --abbrev=0 --tags)

in my script like this: mvn deploy -Dartifact=target/$version.jar

But while running the filename is coming as blank. Please suggest what needs to be done.

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In a tag build, the tag’s name is available as $TRAVIS_TAG.
So there’s no need to run any Git commands to retrieve it.

See https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/environment-variables/#convenience-variables.

If you are rather creating a tag as part of the build, I need to look at your build showcasing the problem to say anything concrete as it would very much depend on what specifically you are doing.

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Have tried this any other suggestions

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You have extra spaces around = in Bash variable assignment, so it’s probably ineffective.

Try

env:
  - version=$(git …)