bazel-skylib/docs/write_file_doc.md

A rule that writes a UTF-8 encoded text file from user-specified contents.

native.genrule() is sometimes used to create a text file. The 'write_file' and macro does this with a simpler interface than genrule.

The rules generated by the macro do not use Bash or any other shell to write the file. Instead they use Starlark's built-in file writing action (ctx.actions.write).

write_file

write_file(name, out, content, is_executable, newline, kwargs)

Creates a UTF-8 encoded text file.

PARAMETERS

Name	Description	Default Value
name	Name of the rule.	none
out	Path of the output file, relative to this package.	none
content	A list of strings. Lines of text, the contents of the file. Newlines are added automatically after every line except the last one.	[]
is_executable	A boolean. Whether to make the output file executable. When True, the rule's output can be executed using bazel run and can be in the srcs of binary and test rules that require executable sources.	False
newline	one of ["auto", "unix", "windows"]: line endings to use. "auto" for platform-determined, "unix" for LF, and "windows" for CRLF.	"auto"
kwargs	further keyword arguments, e.g. <code>visibility</code>	none