I want to run a .bat file at the root of the repository, so I create a job to checkout the repo first, then try to find the file to run it in the second job. I thought this should be very simple, but I just can’t get it right… This is my YAML file.

name: MSBuild
on:

push:

branches: [ main ]

pull_request:

branches: [ main ]
workflow_dispatch:
env:

SOLUTION_FILE_PATH: ./mysolution.sln

BUILD_CONFIGURATION: Release
permissions:

contents: read
jobs:

checkout:

runs-on: windows-latest

steps:

- uses: actions/checkout@v3
premake:

runs-on: windows-latest

needs: checkout
steps:
- working-directory: ${{env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}}
  run: ./premake.bat

build:

runs-on: windows-latest

needs: premake
steps:
- name: Add MSBuild to PATH
  uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1.0.2

- name: Restore NuGet packages
  working-directory: ${{env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}}
  run: nuget restore ${{env.SOLUTION_FILE_PATH}}

- name: Build Solution
  working-directory: ${{env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}}
  run: msbuild /m /p:Configuration=${{env.BUILD_CONFIGURATION}} ${{env.SOLUTION_FILE_PATH}}

Github keeps telling me that the “path is incorrect” or “no such file” or “premake.bat is not recognized as a name of …”, I thought ${{env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}} is my current working directory, but it is not, I also tried to print out ${{env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}} and .\, but the ls -a command always returns empty on both powershell and bash shell, what am I missing here? Does ls even work in Github actions?