$PWD and $WORKSPACE are different in Jenkins

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Corey picture Corey · Mar 15, 2019 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

My job has a build step Build - Execute shell, I only put these two command in:

echo $WORKSPACE
echo $PWD

And the output really confused me:

+ echo /home/jenkins/workspace/tradefed/test_deployment
/home/jenkins/workspace/tradefed/test_deployment
+ echo /media/d/workspace/tradefed/test_deployment
/media/d/workspace/tradefed/test_deployment

Why the value of $WORKSPACE and $PWD are different ?

Update 2019/03/18:

As @PavelAnikhouski mentioned, $WORKSPACE is set relatively to your $JENKINS_HOME, $PWD is OS environment variable, refers to current working directory in file system, so they should not be the same.

But I am still confused about $WORKSPACE, why Jenkins has $WORKSPACE, but execute shell in another working directory ?

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