How to copy ONLY CONTENT of folder not the folder itself

[devnull69]

I have used your action to copy my build folder to an existing SSH remote folder

source: "build/*"
target: "/www/htdocs/sjdgfjsd/mydestinationfolder/"

but it always creates the build folder on the target. How can I prevent this?

So the final folder structure is like this:
/www/htdocs/sjdgfjsd/mydestinationfolder/build/

but it should be like this
/www/htdocs/sjdgfjsd/mydestinationfolder/

[brendansiow]

Do you have any temporary workaround yet ? I also facing this issue atm ><

[devnull69]

Actually I do

Even though it doesn't sound correct, there is an option strip_components: true which made it work

[vanodevium]

@devnull69

strip_components: 1 is more correct

[stabor705]

God, I wish this wasn't an issue. source: public/* shouldn't have the exact same outcome as source: public/ and its so easy to waste time on that

[ayyadurai-k]

Fixed: Added flatten Option

This issue is now resolved! I've added a new flatten parameter that automatically removes parent folder structure.

Usage:

source: "build/*"
target: "/www/htdocs/"
flatten: true  # Add this line

PR Link : #216

Result: Files from build/ are copied directly to target without creating a build/ subdirectory.

Note: Internal folder structure is preserved (e.g., build/styles/ becomes target/styles/).

[jon-nfc]

@devnull69

strip_components: 1 is more correct

while this worked for the first dir it wasn't sufficient.

using strip_components: 2 was "better'er" to only give me the files in source: "artifacts/pages/*" which works the same as the proposed flatten option by @ayyadurai-k.

my working step is as follows (and only the files under artifacts/pages and no extra dirs to the target):

      - name: Copy files to webserver
        uses: appleboy/scp-action@v1
        with:
          --truncated--
          source: "artifacts/pages/*"
          target: /opt/webserver/tester/
          strip_components: 2
          rm: true