[FIXED] Copy jenkins pipeline project

Issue

I am looking for a way to create a copy of a pipeline project in Jenkins. If i select a normal project, i see an option "Copy Project" in the sidebar, but that is not there in pipeline projects. Is it at all possible to copy pipelines?

Solution

I do not know of a way to do that in the UI, I am using the Jenkins CLI to do that. I wrote a wrapper for the command line which looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
#file: jenkins_cli.sh
cd $1
if [ -z ${JENKINS_CREDENTIALS+x} -o -z ${JENKINS_SERVER+x} ]
  then
    JENKINS_SERVER=$(<jenkins_url.txt)
    JENKINS_CREDENTIALS=$(<credentials_api.txt)
fi
java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s $JENKINS_SERVER -auth $JENKINS_CREDENTIALS ${@:2} | dos2unix

since I have subfolders for every Jenkins master I have and those subfolders contain the jenkins_url.txt and credentials_api.txt. I then invoke commands like this: ./jenkins_cli <jenkinsxyz> help.

To save jobs of one Jenkins Master, I created this script:

#!/bin/sh
# save all job configurations locally
#
# parameters:
#   directory with credentials_api.txt, jenkins_url.txt and jenkins-cli.jar of 
#   the jenkins server that will be backuped
cd $1
CLI="./../jenkins_cli.sh"

echo "create backup folder.."
mkdir -p backup

echo "save job list.."
. $CLI . list-jobs | unix2dos.exe > jobs.txt

echo "save job configuration.."
LOOPS=$(wc -l < jobs.txt)
for l in $(seq $LOOPS); do
    JOBNAME=$(tail -n+$l jobs.txt | head -n1)
    . $CLI . get-job "$JOBNAME" > ./backup/$JOBNAME.xml
    echo "saved job nr. $l: $JOBNAME"
done

not the nicest, but it works :) and I am using Git for Windows, thats why I am piping everything to unix2dos.

Answered By - tim