jenkins - archive artifacts ‘*’ doesn’t match anything

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jdoe picture jdoe · Apr 3, 2017 · Viewed 15.5k times · Source

I'm trying to set up a step to archive artifacts and I want to archive everything however specifying * does not work. Jenkins comes up with ‘*’ doesn’t match anything

if I run the job regardless the job fails and logs show: ERROR: No artifacts found that match the file pattern "". Configuration error? ERROR: ‘’ doesn’t match anything

I tried using ** too but that came back with the same errors

Answer

erudash picture erudash · Nov 27, 2019

Here is what to check for:

  • archive artifacts will only work in the workspace and fails outside

  • the path should be a relative path in the workspace and doesnt start with "." :

    archiveArtifacts artifacts: "build/**"
archiveArtifacts artifacts: "./build/**"   // Fails
archiveArtifacts artifacts: "$workspace/build/**"    // Fails

  • " *" matches any file in the directory, ** will match everything including dir and subdirectories, **/.log will matches all files in all subdirectories with potfix

  • depending on if it s a windows or linux node, you will want to express your path differently

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