How to mark a build unstable in Jenkins when running shell scripts

Question

In a project I\'m working on, we are using shell scripts to execute different tasks. Some are sh/bash scripts that run rsync, and some are PHP scripts. One of the PHP script

Answer 1

It can be done without printing magic strings and using TextFinder. Here's some info on it.

Basically you need a .jar file from http://yourserver.com/cli available in shell scripts, then you can use the following command to mark a build unstable:

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar set-build-result unstable

To mark build unstable on error, you can use:

failing_cmd cmd_args || java -jar jenkins-cli.jar set-build-result unstable

The problem is that jenkins-cli.jar has to be available from shell script. You can either put it in easy-to-access path, or download in via job's shell script:

wget ${JENKINS_URL}jnlpJars/jenkins-cli.jar