Given I have a directory path, how do I check if this directory exists outside of the workspace from a jenkins pipeline script.
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im not sure that that was your question but fileExists() works for directories as well
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Karsten G.
Actually this should be marked as correct answer.
fileExists(target_dir) in pipeline checks the given file in workspace, it is not permitted to access the outside.
to do this, the sh or bat in pipeline can help verify if the target directory exists by calling shell command.
res = sh(script: "test -d ${target_dir} && echo '1' || echo '0' ", returnStdout: true).trim() if(res=='1'){ echo 'yes' } else { echo 'no' } 
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KatariaA
Unfortunately that looks like too much work if I have to check for multiple directories. In my case, I had to check for 10.
Gayan Viranka
It can be written as a method. So it can be called multiple times
Benjamin Hammer Nørgaard
I would do
sh(script: "test -d ${target_dir}", returnStatus: true) == 0 no need for echo and string matching.Tried a few things and turned out the answer was already in front of me. fileExists can check for directories as well. Here's how I got around the problem. In this example, I am creating a directory on Windows if it doesn't exist.
Step 1: dir into the directory
dir("C:/_Tests") Step 2: Now, use fileExists without any file name.
if(!fileExists("/")) { bat "mkdir \"C:/_Tests\"" } 1 Comment
Aaron D. Marasco
The dir function will create the directory for you automatically once you try to do something in it, so the
fileExists can be skipped.for anyone interested a bit more universal (windows, mac, linux and shared library...):
def listDirectories(String Directory, String Pattern) { def dlist = [] new File(Directory).eachDir {dlist << it.name } dlist.sort() dlist = dlist.findAll { it.contains Pattern } return dlist } usage (for this):
if (listDirectories(Directory: "C:/", Pattern: "Windows").size() == 1) { ... } 
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None from suggestions above worked for me...
This is 100% working code:
efs_path = '~/efs-mount-point' stdout = sh( script: '''#!/bin/bash set -ex if [ -d ''' + efs_path + ''' ]; then echo "true" else echo "false" fi ''', returnStdout: true) echo stdout if (stdout.contains('false')) { error('No such directory: ' + efs_path) } 