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Link check: don't let bash -e abort on lychee exit 2 #535

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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions .github/workflows/check_links.yml
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Expand Up @@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ jobs:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: |
set -uo pipefail
lychee --config lychee.toml --format markdown -o lychee-report.md 'content/**/*.md'
status=$?
# Actions runs this with bash -e; capture lychee's exit code rather
# than letting errexit abort the step before the report is written.
status=0
lychee --config lychee.toml --format markdown -o lychee-report.md 'content/**/*.md' || status=$?
cat lychee-report.md >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
# 2 = broken links found; anything else non-zero is a lychee failure.
if [ $status -eq 2 ]; then
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