Hmm well printenv shows JOB_NAME=MY-PROJECT-1.0. Not much help there. Any other ideas?
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Maureen Barger <mobar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Matthew you are right, I assumed that was the root of the issue. I > will try as you suggest. Thanks! > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:59 AM, <matthew.web...@diamond.ac.uk> wrote: >> Ok, so your question is not >> "What characters are illegal to include in job names" >> but rather >> "how does the Copy Artifact plugin derive an environment variable name >> from a jobname, in order to report the job number" >> >> I've had the same problem with $COPYARTIFACT_BUILD_NUMBER - it seems >> impossible to work out what environment variable it actually generates. The >> simplest approach I have found is to run a shell build step after the Copy >> Artifact step, and use the "printenv" or "set" command to see what >> environment variables exist (if Windows, use the appropriate equivalent). >> That should tell you what you need to know. >> >> Hope that helps >> Matthew >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Maureen >>> Barger >>> Sent: 14 October 2013 16:50 >>> To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: What characters are illegal to include in job names? >>> >>> Thanks Scott. I am having trouble copying artifacts from another job >>> using $COPYARTIFACT_BUILD_NUMBER. The job in question has a dot and >>> hyphens in the name (ie MY-PROJECT-1.0) The documentation says that >>> anything not a letter is replaced with "_" (ie >>> projectName.toUpperCase().replaceAll("[^A-Z]+", "_")) but I am finding >>> on this job, it does not work. >>> So $COPYARTIFACT_BUILD_NUMBER_MY_PROJECT_ should be the string used >>> but it is not working. I have tried a number of combinations as well. >>> I thought I remembered reading somewhere that using a dot in a job >>> name is not recommended but I cannot find anything in the docs or >>> elsewhere to prove that. >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Scott Evans <milwrd...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > I'm not familiar with any offhand which are illegal, though I'd suggest as >>> > best practices to avoid anything that's not a standard alphabetic, >>> > numeric, >>> > or dash/underscore. Depending on what platform(s) you're working on, I'd >>> > suggest for sure to avoid spaces, as that just gets weird with some >>> > command-line stuff if there are spaces in the job name. It's probably >>> > more >>> > of an OS limitation on what would be a valid directory name rather than >>> > anything within Jenkins itself. >>> > >>> > Scott >>> > >>> > >>> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Maureen Barger <mobar...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Hi - I am having a hard time finding any list of characters we should >>> >> not use in job names. Are there any? 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