Is it possible to call a PowerShell command directly in the pipelines groovy script? While using custom jobs in Jenkins I am able to call the command with the PowerShell Plugin. But there is no snippet to use this in the groovy script.
I also tried sh() but it seems that this command does not allow multiple lines and comments inside the command.
To call a PowerShell script from the Groovy-Script:
bat command.errorlevel) variable will be correctly returned (EXIT 1 should resulting in a FAILED job).$LastExitCode will be considered.Since Jenkins 2.207 with Powershell plugin 1.4, I have replace all my calls with the official powershell pipeline command. I do now recommend to use it. Note that you must predent
\$ErrorActionPreference='Stop';to your Script if you want it to abort on Write-Error because of an Issue with the powershell plugin.
For that porpuse I have written a little groovy method which could be integrate in any pipeline-script:
def PowerShell(psCmd) {
psCmd=psCmd.replaceAll("%", "%%")
bat "powershell.exe -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command \"\$ErrorActionPreference='Stop';[Console]::OutputEncoding=[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8;$psCmd;EXIT \$global:LastExitCode\""
}
[EDIT] I have added the UTF8 OutputEncoding: works great with Server 2016 and Win10.[/EDIT] [EDIT] I have added the '%' mask[/EDIT]
In your Pipeline-Script you could then call your Script like this:
stage ('Call Powershell Script')
{
node ('MyWindowsSlave') {
PowerShell(". '.\\disk-usage.ps1'")
}
}
The best thing with that method, is that you may call CmdLet without having to do this in the Script, which is best-praxis.
Call ps1 to define CmdLet, an then call the CmdLet
PowerShell(". '.\\disk-usage.ps1'; du -Verbose")
. to be sure your step failed when the script return an error code (should be preferred), use & if you don't care about it.
" should be masked for groovy and batch: PowerShell("Write-Output \\\"hereXamXI\\\".Split(\\\"X\\\")") do the thing for me. I prefer to replace " by ': PowerShell("Write-Output 'hereXamXI'.Split('X')"). Regards
Calling PowerShell scripts is now supported with powershell step as announced on Jenkins blog.
The documentation mentions it supports multiple lines scripts.
powershell step?From version 2.28 of Pipeline Nodes and Processes Plugin, we can directly use 'powershell'.
Eg: powershell(". '.Test.ps1'")
You can use the sh command like this:
sh """
echo 'foo'
# bar
echo 'hello'
"""
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