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johnfo
johnfo

Reputation: 1842

Jenkins pipeline selective delete

I'm slowly replacing traditional jobs with Jenkins pipelines. We've got some jobs which I've previously optimised by only deleting some key files from the workspace of a previous build - thus we end up with incremental builds rather than full ones. FTR this makes our basic builds 3/4 times faster, and I'm keen to preserve it.

I need to delete those files (to simplify real scenario) that contain "cache". I currently use "**/cache" as an include parameter to the Delete Workspace build step. Question: is there something similar already in pipeline steps? I could probably do it using find or similar, but this has to work on Windows too and that has portability implications.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5689

Answers (2)

johnfo
johnfo

Reputation: 1842

I've switched away from using cleanWS having used it. Rather I am using the file operations to explicitly delete the files concerned.

The file operations act there and then. The cleanWs acts at the end of a run and can't be relied upon if that run went wrong and did not finish - e.g. syntax error - or that was running a different script.

Upvotes: 0

gkman
gkman

Reputation: 108

You could use the cleanWS step to clean up certain parts of the workspace. However, it is a plugin you can find here: Workspace Cleanup Plugin.

You can find syntax about a snippet generator for this step at your-jenkins-url/pipeline-syntax/

Upvotes: 1

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