[FIXED] How to retrieve build_id of latest successful build in Jenkins?

Issue

Generally, to get the artifact of the latest successful build, I do a wget on the below URL:

http://jenkins.com/job/job_name/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/artifact1/jenkins.txt

Is there a way, I can do a wget on lastSuccessfulBuild and get a build_id like below?

build_id=`wget http://jenkins.p2pcredit.local/job/job_name/lastSuccessfulBuild`

Solution

Yes, there is a way and it is pretty straightforward:

$ build_id=`wget -qO- jenkins_url/job/job_name/lastSuccessfulBuild/buildNumber`
$ echo $build_id
131 # that's my build number

Answered By - Vitalii Elenhaupt