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

I know this kind of late answer, but whoever you who needs the solution without eval you can use /bin/bash -c "script" to make pipe works

script {
    POM_VERSION = sh(script: "/bin/bash -c 'sed -n \'//,///g\'\''", returnStdout: true)
    echo "${POM_VERSION}"
}

The only problem with this method is hellish escape yet this way the subshell of pipe will be handled by our boy /bin/bash -c