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Command Line Reference

Basic example​

export ESCAPE_APPLICATION_ID=<YOUR APPLICATION ID>
export ESCAPE_API_KEY=<YOUR API KEY>

npm i -g @escape.tech/action
escape-action

Failure behavior​

By default, Escape cli will fail if any High issues are flagged, and will exit with an error code 1.

Available variables​

ESCAPE_APPLICATION_ID string required​

The id of the application on Escape that will be scanned continuously.
You can find it in your Escape application settings.

ESCAPE_API_KEY string required​

Your API key on the Escape platform.
You can find it in your Escape settings.

SCHEMA_URL string​

The URL to your API schema, that you want to upload to the specific application ESCAPE_APPLICATION_ID

SCHEMA_FILE string​

The filepath to your API schema, that you want to upload to the specific application ESCAPE_APPLICATION_ID

FAIL_ON_SEVERITIES string​

A csv-delimited string that should contain either of these severities to define a failure of the cli (exit code 1):

  • HIGH
  • MEDIUM
  • LOW
  • INFO

For example, export FAIL_ON_SEVERITIES=HIGH,MEDIUM will make the cli fail if any HIGH or MEDIUM issues are flagged.

TIMEOUT number​

The timeout of the job. If set to 0, the scan will be started, but the job will not wait for it to be finished before terminating.

The triggered scan will run asynchronously on Escape, and your team will be notified once it is done using your desired notifications settings.

CONFIGURATION_OVERRIDE string​

See the configuration override section.

CONFIGURATION_OVERRIDE_PATH string​

See the configuration override section.

REF_NAME string​

See the commit identification section.

COMMIT_HASH string​

See the commit identification section.

USER_EMAIL string​

See the commit identification section.

INTROSPECTION_FILE path​

See the introspection update section.

Command-line options​

--output <path> string​

The path to the output file that will contain the scan results.