How can I execute Shell script in Jenkinsfile

Question

I am keeping a shell script file named urltest sh  in  var lib jenkins and executing the file from jenkins build   When I execute the build  It fails    The Environment Variables are -  HOME -           var lib jenkins   JENKINS HOME -   var lib jenkins   The console output comes as   Started by user anonymous Building in workspace  var lib jenkins workspace AutoScript  AutoScript     bin sh -xe  tmp hudson2777728063740604479 sh   sh urltest sh sh  0  Can t open urltest sh Build step  Execute shell  marked build as failure Finished  FAILURE   I am confused where I should keep the shell script file so that it is executed

User · Accepted Answer

If you see your error message it says

Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/AutoScript

and as per your comments you have put urltest.sh in

/var/lib/jenkins

Hence Jenkins is not able to find the file. In your build step do this thing, it will work

cd             # which will point to /var/lib/jenkins
./urltest.sh   # it will run your script

If it still fails try to chown the file as jenkin user may not have file permission, but I think if you do above step you will be able to run.

User · Answer

Based on the number of views this question has  it looks like a lot of people are visiting this to see how to set up a job that executes a shell script   These are the steps to execute a shell script in Jenkins    In the main page of Jenkins select New Item  Enter an item name like  my shell script job  and chose Freestyle project  Press OK  On the configuration page  in the Build block click in the Add build step dropdown and select Execute shell  In the textarea you can either paste a script or indicate how to run an existing script  So you can either say      bin bash  echo  hello  today is   date    gt   tmp jenkins test   or just   path to your script sh  Click Save    Now the newly created job should appear in the main page of Jenkins  together with the other ones  Open it and select Build now to see if it works  Once it has finished pick that specific build from the build history  and read the Console output to see if everything happened as desired   You can get more details in the document Create a Jenkins shell script job in GitHub

User · Answer

Previous answers are correct but here is one more way of doing this and some tips   Option  1 Go to you Jenkins job and search for  add build step  and then just copy and paste your script there  Option  2 Go to Jenkins and do the same again  add build step  but this time put the fully qualified path for your script in there example     usr somewhere helloWorld sh     things to watch for  tips    Environment variables  if your job is running at the same time then you need to worry about concurrency issues  One job may be setting the value of environment variables and the next may use the value or take some action based on that incorrectly  Make sure all paths are fully qualified  Think about logging  var log or somewhere so you would also have something to go to on the server  optional  thing about space issue and permissions  running out of space and permission issues are very common in linux environment  Alerting and make sure your script job fails the jenkin jobs when your script fails

User · Answer

There s the Managed Script Plugin which provides an easy way of managing user scripts  It also adds a build step action which allows you to select which user script to execute

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