diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-change-note.yml b/.github/workflows/check-change-note.yml
index 3967c0ec9215..f80864ed0199 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-change-note.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-change-note.yml
@@ -15,20 +15,34 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   check-change-note:
+    env: 
+      REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+      PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.number }}
+      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
+
       - name: Fail if no change note found. To fix, either add one, or add the `no-change-note-required` label.
         if: |
           github.event.pull_request.draft == false &&
           !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'no-change-note-required')
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         run: |
-          gh api 'repos/${{github.repository}}/pulls/${{github.event.number}}/files' --paginate --jq 'any(.[].filename ; test("/change-notes/.*[.]md$"))' |
-          grep true -c
+          change_note_files=$(gh api "repos/$REPO/pulls/$PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER/files" --paginate --jq '.[].filename | select(test("/change-notes/.*[.]md$"))')
+          
+          if [ -z "$change_note_files" ]; then
+            echo "No change note found. Either add one, or add the 'no-change-note-required' label."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          echo "Change notes found:"
+          echo "$change_note_files"
+
       - name: Fail if the change note filename doesn't match the expected format. The file name must be of the form 'YYYY-MM-DD.md', 'YYYY-MM-DD-{title}.md', where '{title}' is arbitrary text, or released/x.y.z.md for released change-notes
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         run: |
-          gh api 'repos/${{github.repository}}/pulls/${{github.event.number}}/files' --paginate --jq '[.[].filename | select(test("/change-notes/.*[.]md$"))] | all(test("/change-notes/[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}.*[.]md$") or test("/change-notes/released/[0-9]*[.][0-9]*[.][0-9]*[.]md$"))' |
-          grep true -c
+          bad_change_note_file_names=$(gh api "repos/$REPO/pulls/$PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER/files" --paginate --jq '[.[].filename | select(test("/change-notes/.*[.]md$"))][] | select((test("/change-notes/[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}.*[.]md$") or test("/change-notes/released/[0-9]*[.][0-9]*[.][0-9]*[.]md$")) | not)')
+
+          if [ -n "$bad_change_note_file_names" ]; then
+            echo "The following change note file names are invalid:"
+            echo "$bad_change_note_file_names"
+            exit 1
+          fi