How can the release id be retrieved for tagging

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Hi,

We would like to tag each release when it gets deployed,
we’re using
DEBUG=1 balena deploy ${APP} --projectName ${MACHINE} --tag ${APP_TAG} --build
to deploy a new release which then creates a release ID like:
[Success] Release: 123925a3f445ac29abbd81119f883abc
that I want to use to tag it with:
balena tag set version SomeRelease.RC.TEST --release 123925a3f445ac29abbd81119f883abc
and I would like toi do it all in a bash script but am wondering can I retrieve the generated release id?

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If only need the to tag the latest release, balena app should be enough:

balena tag set version SomeRelease.RC.TEST --release $(balena app "${APP}" | grep COMMIT | awk '{print $2}')
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Hi Ereski,

This works fine but won’t work with a pinned release in an application. balena app will always print the hash of the pinned release instead of the latest i.e. I will end up tagging the wrong release. How can I work around this? Thanks!

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Hi
We have a SDK which you could use to do this. In that we have a function to get all the releases from an application - see the docs here
Once you have this integrated in your bash script, you should be able to get the latest release .

Does that work for you?

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Thanks, I instead use | tee to write the output to a file and then extract the just created tag with grep and awk. Works like a charm! Thanks!