Get absolute path to workspace directory in Jenkins Pipeline plugin

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Joerg S picture Joerg S · Apr 29, 2016 · Viewed 150.6k times · Source

I'm currently doing some evaluation on the Jenkins Pipeline plugin (formerly know as Workflow plugin). Reading the documentation I found out that I currently cannot retriev the workspace path using env.WORKSPACE:

The following variables are currently unavailable inside a workflow script:

NODE_LABELS

WORKSPACE

SCM-specific variables such as SVN_REVISION

Is there any other way how to get the absolute path to the current workspace? I need this running some test which in turn gets some parameter (absolute path to some executable file). I already tried using new File("").absolutePath() inside a @NonCPS section but looks like the non-CPS stuff gets always executed on the master.

Does anybody have a clue how to get this path without running some batch script which stores the path into some file which later on can be read in again?

Answer

Aleks picture Aleks · Apr 29, 2016

Note: this solution works only if the slaves have the same directory structure as the master. pwd() will return the workspace directory on the master due to JENKINS-33511.

I used to do it using pwd() functionality of pipeline plugin. So, if you need to get a workspace on slave, you may do smth like this:

node('label'){
    //now you are on slave labeled with 'label'
    def workspace = pwd()
    //${workspace} will now contain an absolute path to job workspace on slave 
}

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