nested zip files

[lauramariel]

I'm doing something like this but when I download the artifact it contains seedPC.zip again. What am I missing?

seedPC.zip -> unzip -> seedPC.zip -> unzip -> contents of lab directory

      - name: Easy Zip Files
        # You may pin to the exact commit or the version.
        # uses: vimtor/action-zip@5f1c4aa587ea41db1110df6a99981dbe19cee310
        uses: vimtor/action-zip@v1
        with:
          # Files or directories to zip
          files: assets/lab
          # Name of output zip file
          dest: seedPC.zip
          # Whether to add subdirectories to simply zip all files to the root
          recursive: true
     
      - name: Upload SeedPC
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
        with:
          name: seedPC
          path: ${{ github.workspace }}/seedPC.zip

[lauranutanix]

Nevermind, I just needed to RTFM - it's because of upload-artifact

During a workflow run, files are uploaded and downloaded individually using the upload-artifact and download-artifact actions. However, when a workflow run finishes and an artifact is downloaded from either the UI or through the download api, a zip is dynamically created with all the file contents that were uploaded. There is currently no way to download artifacts after a workflow run finishes in a format other than a zip or to download artifact contents individually. One of the consequences of this limitation is that if a zip is uploaded during a workflow run and then downloaded from the UI, there will be a double zip created.