Jenkins pipeline sh does not seem to respect pipe in shell command

Question

I am using a Jenkinsfile in a pipeline on version 2.32.2.

For various reasons I want to extract the version string from the pom. I was hoping I wouldn\'t have to a

Answer 1

If your environment allows it, I've found a simple solution to this problem to be to place your script containing pipes into a file, and then run that with sh, like so:

script.sh:

#!/bin/sh
kubectl exec --container bla -i $(kubectl get pods | awk '/foo-/{ print $1 }') -- php /code/dostuff

Jenkinsfile:

stage('Run script with pipes') {
  steps {
    sh "./script.sh"
  }
}