TTPForge Actions: create_file

The create_file action can be used to drop files on disk without the need to loudly invoke a shell and use cat or echo. Check out the TTP below to see how it works:

https://github.com/facebookincubator/TTPForge/blob/7634dc65879ec43a108a4b2d44d7eb2105a2a4b1/example-ttps/actions/create-file/basic.yaml#L1-L22

You can experiment with the above TTP by installing the examples TTP repository (skip this if ttpforge list repos shows that the examples repo is already installed):

ttpforge install repo https://github.com/facebookincubator/TTPForge --name examples

and then running the below command:

ttpforge run examples//actions/create-file/basic.yaml

Fields

You can specify the following YAML fields for the create_file: action:

• create_file: (type: string) the path to the file you want to create.
• contents: (type: string) the contents that you want placed in the new file.
• overwrite: (type: bool) whether the file should be overwritten if it already exists.
• mode: the octal permission mode (chmod style) for the new file.
• cleanup: you can set this to default in order to automatically cleanup the created file, or define a custom cleanup action.