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cURL and shell task

I am using gulpfile.js in my project to download files and it is working fine.

var shell = require('gulp-shell');
gulp.task('folder_xyz', shell.task('curl --output xyz.zip --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: theyuuin_io2_kj" "https://example.com/api/v4/download?job=xyz"'));

here everything is working fine and i am able to download the file. However i have set environment variable in GitLab called download_folder_xyz . Now i want to use this environment, want to replace Private token with new variable download_folder_xyz in the gulp.task() how can i do this ?

Solution

  • You can access any environment variable in nodejs via process.env object. Let's see an example. Assuming you want to access download_folder_xyz that is a environment variable

    var shell = require('gulp-shell');
gulp.task('folder_xyz', shell.task(`curl --output xyz.zip --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: ${process.env.download_folder_xyz}" "https://example.com/api/v4/download?job=xyz"`));