I’m running shell scripts from Jenkins, which kicks off shell scripts with the shebang options #!/bin/sh -ex. According to Bash Shebang for dummies?, -x, “causes the shell to print an execution trace”, which is great for most purposes – except for echos: echo “Message” produces the output + echo “Message” Message which is a bit … Read more
Due to a misconfiguration, I have over 1700 failed builds in a Jenkins job. How can I efficiently clean them? Answer You have several options: Temporarily set the number of builds to keep in the job configuration (Discard Old Builds) so that those builds will be deleted when the next build finishes. If the next … Read more
I’m using Google Chrome. When I’m using Jenkins (This is remote service, I don’t have control over it) then part of UI is displaying in my local language. How can I tell Jenkins to always display messages in English? Answer Another way to achieve this: Install the Locale plugin. You can set the default language … Read more
