# Base64 to File
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Use this action if you need to get a file from a base64-encoded string that you may be storing in Secrets or elsewhere.  This can be useful for certificate signing and storing the base64 cert in the Secrets.

## Usage

```
- name: Run Workflow
  id: write_file
  uses: timheuer/base64-to-file@v1.2
  with:
    fileName: 'myTemporaryFile.txt'
    fileDir: './main/folder/subfolder/'
    encodedString: ${{ secrets.SOME_ENCODED_STRING }}
```
By default this writes the `fileName` to a temporary path defined by `env.RUNNER_TEMP`.  If you want a different path that is writable, specify `fileDir` as an input argument as well and then `fileDir` and `fileName` will be combined to create the path where the output will be written.  This assumes permissions in the `fileDir` are correct and does not try to set them.
## Using the file in a later step
The Action has an output variable named filePath that you can use as this file is written to TEMP.  Make sure you ad an `id` to your step when using this Action so that you can easily pull it out of the steps context later.

```
- name: Run Workflow
  id: write_file
  uses: timheuer/base64-to-file@v1.2
  with:
    fileName: 'myTemporaryFile.txt'
    encodedString: ${{ secrets.SOME_ENCODED_STRING }}

- name: Some other step
  uses: actions/someaction@master
  with:
      filelocation: ${{ steps.write_file.outputs.filePath }}
```

### Using this in a reusable workflow
As a special note, when using reusable workflows, repository secrets do not naturally 'flow' through to the workflow.  So if your `encodedString` value is a repository secret and you expect this to work when this action is used in a reusable workflow, you need to specify the `secrets: inherit` value in that situation and put that where you are reusing this workflow.

## Building this repo
After making modifications to the source index.js file, to properly package the change you need to run

```
npm run package
```

which will modify/create the /dist folder with the final index.js output

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