How to create a folder in github actions?

Question

I am new to github actions and need some help.

I have a readme.md file for a collection of scripts that is 100s of lines long. I want to translate it into different languages using this github action (https://github.com/dephraiim/translate-readme)

But instead of putting all the files it creates into the main directory. I want to create a folder inside my directory and put all these created files in there.

So in the main directory I have all the scripts I've written and one readme.md file. What I want is something like this.

Maindirectory/newreadmefolder/(all the new language readme.md files)

Answer 1

A directory can be created this way.:

      - name: Create dir
        run: |
          mkdir mydirname

This has to be added in steps part like in this full action file:

name: mkdir example

on:
  push:
    branches: [ '**' ]
  
  workflow_dispatch:


jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Create dir
        run: |
          mkdir mydirname

If you also want to move some file, you can add something like mv readme-*.md mydirname at the end, e.g.:

      - name: Create dir
        run: |
          mkdir mydirname
          mv readme-*.md mydirname