Jenkins Delete Dir after Job

Question

I have a number of Jenkins pipeline and I would like to delete the directory when the pipeline finishes, (pass or fail).

I have added the following stage to all of my pipelines.

    post {
        always {
                step([$class: 'WsCleanup'])
        }
    }

This does work, but somewhere during the clean up it creates another folder in the same dir and makes it as ws-cleanup eg. myservices_ws-cleanup_1571049838662

Is it possible to delete the directory without creating the ws-cleanup directory?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28683914/is-there-any-way-to-cleanup-jenkins-workspace — Adiii, Oct 14 '19 at 11:10
Hi @Adiii, I think these approaches still leave the ws-cleanup directory after it is finished cleaning — user3292394, Oct 14 '19 at 11:15

enkicoma · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-15T22:22:38.807

your post looks more Jenkins declarative pipeline combined with scripted Jenkins pipeline

post {
    always {
       script {    
            step([$class: 'WsCleanup'])
       }
    }
}

if you want to combine this don't forget to use script block. And btw, when you start a job and if the job runs on Jenkins Slave then Jenkins will create a workdir with the job name specified in the Jenkins UI.

My understanding is if you will do a post condition on your pipelines with cleanWs() that will clean up the content inside the workspace folder, but not the entire folder... the folder-name will remain(empty).

That makes possible to start/test a fresh new/next Job on a fresh workspace.

Here is the answer to your question Check the answer

Thanks for the insight, I ended up going with the `deleteDir()` — user3292394, Oct 15 '19 at 09:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '19 at 12:54

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Is not cleanWs() working for your purpose? If not you can always use the deleteDir() option

post {
    always {
            cleanWs()
    }
}

answered Oct 14 '19 at 12:54

Guel135

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