Self hosted windows runner executes yaml anchors in bash?

Dirk Schuermans

Given the following pipeline definition:

definitions:<br>  common-items: #https://stackoverflow.com/a/79179771<br>    - initialize: &initialize |<br>        Import-Module ".\.bitbucket\Virto_Functions.psm1"<br>        .\.bitbucket\initialize_step.ps1<br>pipelines:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;pull-requests:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'**':<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;step:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;name:&nbsp;"Build&nbsp;&&nbsp;test"<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;script:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;$env:DISABLE_EAZFUSCATOR="true"<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;*initialize

My build then fails with the message

<span><span>+ $env:DISABLE_EAZFUSCATOR="true"</span></span>

bash: :DISABLE_EAZFUSCATOR=true: command not found

Any thoughts? It appears that it's executing this using bash and not powershell..

I have my entire pipeline working just fine using the documented YAML anchor functionality, but I stumbled upon this "hidden" feature on StackOverflow

I really want to have a way to re-use sets of scripts, instead of having to duplicate entire steps simply to leave out a few script lines

Dirk Schuermans

Doh, major facepalm here.

I forgot to add the runs-on: