I have something like this on a Jenkinsfile (Groovy) and I want to record the stdout and the exit code in a variable in order to use the information later.
sh "ls -l"
How can I do this, especially as it seems that you cannot really run any kind of groovy code inside the Jenkinsfile?
The latest version of the pipeline sh step allows you to do the following;
// Git committer email
GIT_COMMIT_EMAIL = sh (
script: 'git --no-pager show -s --format=\'%ae\'',
returnStdout: true
).trim()
echo "Git committer email: ${GIT_COMMIT_EMAIL}"
Another feature is the returnStatus option.
// Test commit message for flags
BUILD_FULL = sh (
script: "git log -1 --pretty=%B | grep '\\[jenkins-full]'",
returnStatus: true
) == 0
echo "Build full flag: ${BUILD_FULL}"
These options where added based on this issue.
See official documentation for the sh command.
For declarative pipelines (see comments), you need to wrap code into script step:
script {
GIT_COMMIT_EMAIL = sh (
script: 'git --no-pager show -s --format=\'%ae\'',
returnStdout: true
).trim()
echo "Git committer email: ${GIT_COMMIT_EMAIL}"
}
Current Pipeline version natively supports returnStdout and returnStatus, which make it possible to get output or status from sh/bat steps.
An example:
def ret = sh(script: 'uname', returnStdout: true)
println ret
An official documentation.
quick answer is this:
sh "ls -l > commandResult"
result = readFile('commandResult').trim()
I think there exist a feature request to be able to get the result of sh step, but as far as I know, currently there is no other option.
EDIT: JENKINS-26133
EDIT2: Not quite sure since what version, but sh/bat steps now can return the std output, simply:
def output = sh returnStdout: true, script: 'ls -l'
If you want to get the stdout AND know whether the command succeeded or not, just use returnStdout and wrap it in an exception handler:
scripted pipeline
try {
// Fails with non-zero exit if dir1 does not exist
def dir1 = sh(script:'ls -la dir1', returnStdout:true).trim()
} catch (Exception ex) {
println("Unable to read dir1: ${ex}")
}
output:
[Pipeline] sh
[Test-Pipeline] Running shell script
+ ls -la dir1
ls: cannot access dir1: No such file or directory
[Pipeline] echo
unable to read dir1: hudson.AbortException: script returned exit code 2
Unfortunately hudson.AbortException is missing any useful method to obtain that exit status, so if the actual value is required you'd need to parse it out of the message (ugh!)
Contrary to the Javadoc https://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/hudson/AbortException.html the build is not failed when this exception is caught. It fails when it's not caught!
Update:
If you also want the STDERR output from the shell command, Jenkins unfortunately fails to properly support that common use-case. A 2017 ticket JENKINS-44930 is stuck in a state of opinionated ping-pong whilst making no progress towards a solution - please consider adding your upvote to it.
As to a solution now, there could be a couple of possible approaches:
a) Redirect STDERR to STDOUT 2>&1
- but it's then up to you to parse that out of the main output though, and you won't get the output if the command failed - because you're in the exception handler.
b) redirect STDERR to a temporary file (the name of which you prepare earlier) 2>filename (but remember to clean up the file afterwards) - ie. main code becomes:
def stderrfile = 'stderr.out'
try {
def dir1 = sh(script:"ls -la dir1 2>${stderrfile}", returnStdout:true).trim()
} catch (Exception ex) {
def errmsg = readFile(stderrfile)
println("Unable to read dir1: ${ex} - ${errmsg}")
}
c) Go the other way, set returnStatus=true instead, dispense with the exception handler and always capture output to a file, ie:
def outfile = 'stdout.out'
def status = sh(script:"ls -la dir1 >${outfile} 2>&1", returnStatus:true)
def output = readFile(outfile).trim()
if (status == 0) {
// output is directory listing from stdout
} else {
// output is error message from stderr
}
Caveat: the above code is Unix/Linux-specific - Windows requires completely different shell commands.
this is a sample case, which will make sense I believe!
node('master'){
stage('stage1'){
def commit = sh (returnStdout: true, script: '''echo hi
echo bye | grep -o "e"
date
echo lol''').split()
echo "${commit[-1]} "
}
}
For those who need to use the output in subsequent shell commands, rather than groovy, something like this example could be done:
stage('Show Files') {
environment {
MY_FILES = sh(script: 'cd mydir && ls -l', returnStdout: true)
}
steps {
sh '''
echo "$MY_FILES"
'''
}
}
I found the examples on code maven to be quite useful.
All the above method will work. but to use the var as env variable inside your code you need to export the var first.
script{
sh " 'shell command here' > command"
command_var = readFile('command').trim()
sh "export command_var=$command_var"
}
replace the shell command with the command of your choice. Now if you are using python code you can just specify os.getenv("command_var") that will return the output of the shell command executed previously.
How to read the shell variable in groovy / how to assign shell return value to groovy variable.
Requirement : Open a text file read the lines using shell and store the value in groovy and get the parameter for each line .
Here , is delimiter
Ex: releaseModule.txt
./APP_TSBASE/app/team/i-home/deployments/ip-cc.war/cs_workflowReport.jar,configurable-wf-report,94,23crb1,artifact
./APP_TSBASE/app/team/i-home/deployments/ip.war/cs_workflowReport.jar,configurable-temppweb-report,394,rvu3crb1,artifact
========================
Here want to get module name 2nd Parameter (configurable-wf-report) , build no 3rd Parameter (94), commit id 4th (23crb1)
def module = sh(script: """awk -F',' '{ print \$2 "," \$3 "," \$4 }' releaseModules.txt | sort -u """, returnStdout: true).trim()
echo module
List lines = module.split( '\n' ).findAll { !it.startsWith( ',' ) }
def buildid
def Modname
lines.each {
List det1 = it.split(',')
buildid=det1[1].trim()
Modname = det1[0].trim()
tag= det1[2].trim()
echo Modname
echo buildid
echo tag
}
If you don't have a single sh command but a block of sh commands, returnstdout wont work then.
I had a similar issue where I applied something which is not a clean way of doing this but eventually it worked and served the purpose.
Solution -
In the shell block , echo the value and add it into some file.
Outside the shell block and inside the script block , read this file ,trim it and assign it to any local/params/environment variable.
example -
steps {
script {
sh '''
echo $PATH>path.txt
// I am using '>' because I want to create a new file every time to get the newest value of PATH
'''
path = readFile(file: 'path.txt')
path = path.trim() //local groovy variable assignment
//One can assign these values to env and params as below -
env.PATH = path //if you want to assign it to env var
params.PATH = path //if you want to assign it to params var
}
}
Easiest way is use this way
my_var=`echo 2`
echo $my_var
output
: 2
note that is not simple single quote is back quote ( ` ).
I am trying to execute a shell script on a windows node using Jenkins.
The bash script uses sort -u flag in one of the steps to filter out unique elements from an existing array
list_unique=($(echo "${list[#]}" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u | tr '\n' ' '))
Note - shebang used in the script is #!/bin/bash
On calling the script from command prompt as - bash test.sh $arg1
I got the following error -
-uThe system cannot find the file specified.
I understand the issue was that with the above call, sort.exe was being used from command prompt and not the Unix sort command. To get around this I changed the path variable in Windows System variables and moved \cygwin\bin ahead of \Windows\System32
This fixed the issue and the above call gave me the expected results.
However, When the same script is called on this node using Jenkins, I get the same error again
-uThe system cannot find the file specified.
Jenkins stage calling the script
stage("Run Test") {
options {
timeout(time: 5, unit: 'MINUTES')
}
steps {
script {
if(fileExists("${Test_dir}")){
dir("${Test_dir}"){
if(fileExists("test.sh")){
def command = 'bash test.sh ${env.arg1}'
env.output = sh(returnStdout: true , script : "${command}").trim()
if (env.output == "Invalid"){
def err_msg = "Error Found."
sh "echo -n '" + err_msg + " ' > ${ERR_MSG_FILE}"
error(err_msg)
}
sh "echo Running tests for ${env.output}"
}
}
}
}
}
}
Kindly Help
I am trying to access an env variable in Jenkins pipeline and want to use it in a Shell Script executing in the same pipeline but a differnt step,
pipeline {
agent any
tools {
maven 'M2'
}
environment {
stable_revision = sh(script: 'curl -H "Authorization: Basic $base64encoded" "https://xyz.sad" | jq -r "name"', returnStdout: true)
}
stages {
stage('Initial-Checks') {
steps {
echo "Stable Revision: ${env.stable_revision}" //displays the value
bat "sh && sh undeploy.sh"
}}
...
}}
This is a sample Shell script, it has many lines, but I have an issue in only accessing the above stable_revision variable,
#!/bin/bash
echo xyz = ${stable_revision} #### this gives the right value xyz = 22
echo xyz2 = ${stable_revision}/d ### here after the value the /d is written in new line
For example, let's say the stable_revision value is 22, then in the SH script echo I am getting the value as,
xyz2 = 22
/d
I want the value to be xyz2 = 22/d
You can use .trim() to strip off a trailing newline.
environment {
stable_revision = sh(script: 'curl -H "Authorization: Basic $base64encoded" "https://xyz.sad" | jq -r "name"', returnStdout: true).trim()
}
returnStdout (optional):
If checked, standard output from the task is returned as the step value as a String, rather than being printed
to the build log. (Standard error, if any, will still be printed to
the log.) You will often want to call .trim() on the result to strip
off a trailing newline.
https://jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/steps/workflow-durable-task-step/#sh-shell-script
If you use bash instead of sh for your commands, you can benefit from Bash's built-in string transformations
Here it trims all trailing characters from the [:space:] class witch includes actual spaces and newlines.
echo "xyz2 = ${stable_revision%%[[:space:]]}/d"
If $stable_revision is always an integer, you can force the shell to use it like an integer with:
echo "xyz2 = $((stable_revision))/d"
If you are sure that $stable_revision contains no space, you can force the shell to trim all spaces by using it like a table element:
sr=($stable_revision); echo "xyz2 = ${sr[0]}/d"
You can also use the automatic trimming of a sub-shell returned value, that would trim any leading, trailing and duplicate spaces in-between:
echo "xyz2 = $(echo ${stable_revision})/d"`
Say I have a Jenkinsfile. Within that Jenkinsfile, is the following sh step:
sh "myScript.sh"
Within myScript.sh, the following variable is declared:
MY_VARIABLE="This is my variable"
How can I access MY_VARIABLE, which is declared in myScript.sh, from my Jenkinsfile?
To import the variable defined in your script into the current shell, you can use the source command (see explanation on SU):
# Either via command
source myScript.sh
# Or via built-in synonym
. myScript.sh
Supposing your script does not output anything, you can then instead output the variable to fetch it in Jenkins:
def myVar = sh(returnStdout: true, script: '. myScript.sh && echo $MY_VARIABLE')
If indeed outputs comes from your script, you can fetch the last output either per shell:
(. myScript.sh && echo $MY_VARIABLE) | tail -n1
or via Groovy:
def out = sh(returnStdout: true, script: '. myScript.sh && echo $MY_VARIABLE')
def myVar = out.tokenize('\n')[-1]
The bash variable declared in .sh file is ending with the pipeline step: sh complete.
But you can make you .sh to generate a properties file, then use pipeline step: readProperties to read the file into object for accessing.
// myScript.sh
...
echo MY_VARIABLE=This is my variable > vars.properties
// pipeline
sh 'myScript.sh'
def props = readProperties file: 'vars.properties'
echo props.MY_VARIABLE
It is strange while I want to use Multi-line String Parameter in Jenkins job.
The parameter name is PRS_INFO, and its default text is:
PT54321:file xxx not exit
PT74231:xxx reboot
After running this job, the parameter is set to environment:
PRS_INFO PT54321:file xxx not exit>PT74231:xxx reboot
But when I want to print it line by line using bash shell code like:
set -x
IFS_OLD=$IFS
IFS='>'
for i in $PRONTO_INFO; do
echo $i
done
IFS=$IFS_OLD
It prints the log in console:
+ IFS_OLD='
'
+ IFS='>'
+ for i in '$PRS_INFO'
+ echo 'PT54321:file xxx not exit
PT74231:xxx reboot'
PT54321:file xxx not exit
PT74231:xxx reboot
+ IFS='
Why is the echo just called once to print all lines, not twice to print two lines?
PS. Jenkins 2.32.3 is the Jenkins version we use.
There does not seem to be a > character in your PRS_INFO variable;
Try:
set -x
OLD_IFS="$IFS"
IFS=$'\n'
for line in $PRS_INFO; do
echo "$line"
done
IFS="$OLD_IFS"