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Prasoon Gupta
Prasoon Gupta

Reputation: 305

How to use file parameter in jenkins

I am executing parameterised build in jenkins to count no. of lines in file which has 1 file parameter. Its file location is pqr. The name of the script file is linecount.sh which is saved at remote server. When i tried to execute it using command sh linecount.sh filename, it works perfectly from jenkins. But as i remove filename from the argument and execute same script as parameterised build it is showing below error on console :

Started by user Prasoon Gupta
[EnvInject] - Loading node environment variables.
Building in workspace users/Prasoon/sample_programs
Copying file to pqr
[sample_programs] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson3529902665956638862.sh
+ sh linecount.sh
PRASOON4
linecount.sh: line 15: parameterBuild.txt: No such file or directory
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

I am uploading file (parameterBuild.txt) from my local machine. Why is it giving this error?

My doubt is in shell script I used argument as $1. How can I refer this when I am taking file as parameter.

Upvotes: 22

Views: 111356

Answers (4)

vinWin
vinWin

Reputation: 603

If it's to do with Free-Style job & if your configuration looks similar to this - https://i.sstatic.net/vH7mQ.png then you can run simply do sh linecount.sh ${pqr} to get what you are looking for?

Upvotes: 0

Aliaksandr Laptseu
Aliaksandr Laptseu

Reputation: 21

There is a workaround for this issue https://github.com/janvrany/jenkinsci-unstashParam-library and in a pipeline script you do:

library "jenkinsci-unstashParam-library"
node {
  def file_in_workspace = unstashParam "file"
  sh "cat ${file_in_workspace}"
}

Upvotes: 2

GalloCedrone
GalloCedrone

Reputation: 5073

There is a a bug since ages that makes impossible to use fileParameter:

Upvotes: 2

Jon S
Jon S

Reputation: 16346

The uploaded file will not retain the same name as it has on your local computer. It will be named after the File location argument specified in the file parameter settings: enter image description here In this example I will get a file called file.txt in my workspace root, regardless of what I call it on my computer. So if I now build my job and enter the following in the parameter dialog (note that my local filename is table.html):

enter image description here

Then I get the following in the log (I have a build step which does ls -l):

Building on master in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/fs
Copying file to file.txt
[fs] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson845437350739055843.sh
+ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 292 Feb 15 07:23 file.txt
Finished: SUCCESS

Note that table.html now is called file.txt, e.g. what I entered as File location.

So in you're case the command should be:

sh linecount.sh pqr

Upvotes: 37

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