Passing data between build steps in Jenkins

Question

I\'d like to do something along the lines of:

This is overly simple and just demonstrates what I\'d like to do. Basically, I want to be able to store and access vari

Answer 1

One thing remains between shells: the workspace.
Simple and stupid solution: use file(s)!

Huge additional advantage: it works when you split your job in several jobs and use the Clone Workspace plugin

Build Step #1 - Execute shell

START=timestamp
...
echo $START > env_start.txt

...

Build Step #3 - Execute Shell

START=`cat env_start.txt`
END=timestamp
TIME_LAPSED=$END-$START