Azure Pipelines - Is there a way to view the folder structure?

Question

I'm struggling to picture the folder structure of azure pipelines. I know there are some implicit directories like:

• $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)
• $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)

Which are both folders on a specific build agent available from the pool.

Is there a way to view the folder structure and get a better understanding how things are laid out?

Answer 1

You can use CMD task to call tree command in Microsoft-Hosted windows agent to get the folder structure.

My script:

echo "Structure of work folder of this pipeline:"
tree $(Agent.WorkFolder)\1 /f

echo "Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory:" 

echo "$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)"

echo "Build.BinariesDirectory:" 

echo "$(Build.BinariesDirectory)"

echo "Build.SourcesDirectory:"

echo "$(Build.SourcesDirectory)"

The result:

$(Agent.WorkFolder) represents the working folder for current agent, $(Agent.WorkFolder)\1 represents the working folder for current pipeline.(Normally the first pipeline will be put in $(Agent.WorkFolder)\1, and the second $(Agent.WorkFolder)\2...)

So it's obvious that for one pipeline run, it has four folders by default: a(artifact folder), b(binaries folder), s(source folder) and TestResults(Test results folder). The s folder is where the source code files are downloaded. For build pipeline: $(Build.SourcesDirectory),$(Build.Repository.LocalPath) and $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory) represent the same folder. More details see predefined variables.