How to use variables in target scripts with nx run-many command?

[ivandjomegni]

I have a script that I added in all my projects' package.json and running nx run-many should update the version number on each file using a pre-defined variable, but currently it's not retrieving the variable's value. I'm on GitHub Actions and here is a piece of my workflow:

updatedVersion = 4.0.0 nx run-many --target=updateProjectsVersion --all

Script in package.json for each project: "updateProjectsVersion": "sed -i /version/s/0.0.0/$updatedVersion/ package.json"

Current Behavior

The value of the variable $updatedVersion is not retrieved, replacing the version number by blank.

Expected Behavior

The sed command should look for the key "version" in each package.json file for the project and replace its value currently set to 0.0.0 by 4.0.0 instead

Steps to Reproduce

If I only run the command directly per projects like nx updateProjectsVersion projectName, it's able to retrieve the value of the variable, but when using nx run-many, it doesn't.

Failure Logs

No failure log

Environment

GitHub Actions running linux

[AgentEnder]

Can you post more of your github actions workflow? There are some details regarding it that could affect this.

[ivandjomegni]

My workflow is quite straightforward, if I do an echo $updatedVersion right before the nx run-many command, it does return the value of the variable, so my guess is it seems like it's the nx run-many command that do not translate variables' values within the target script

updatedVersion = 4.0.0
echo $updatedVersion  **(returns 4.0.0)**
nx run-many --target=updateProjectsVersion --projects=proj1,proj2

Script in package.json for the both proj1 and proj2: "updateProjectsVersion": "sed -i /version/s/0.0.0/$updatedVersion/ package.json"

I also tried to use the syntax for an environment variable in the script with env.updatedVersion which also return the correct value when I do an echo, but not within the script.

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