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

The pipeline-utility-steps plugin nowadays includes a readMavenPom step, which allows to access the version as follows:

version = readMavenPom.getVersion()