I have a workflow step that runs this last stage of a shell command in a loop:
|| echo "::error Filename $filename doesn't match possible files" && exit 1 ; done
The exit is triggered appropriately, but the only annotation I see is:
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
The log shows the entire shell command pipeline and also that same error message, but not my echo'd error.
How do I get my output, including the $filename variable, included?
You have the wrong syntax:
echo "::error::Filename $filename doesn't match possible files"
You need to postfix error with ::
Here is a working workflow:
There must be something else wrong with your workflow if it doesn't work - other command is exiting with code 1 before it has a chance to execute.