How can we get the jenkins console output in a text file?

Question

How can i get the Jenkins console output in a text file? I want to share it with someone, is there any way to do it?

Answer 1

if you want just access the log and download it as a txt file to your workspace from the job's URL:

${BUILD_URL}/consoleText

On Linux, you can use wget to download it to your workspace

wget ${BUILD_URL}/consoleText

The actual log file on the file system is in the Master machine. You can find it under:

$JENKINS_HOME/jobs/$JOB_NAME/builds/lastSuccessfulBuild/log

Answer 2

For Windows you could use curl in a powershell prompt:

curl  ${BUILD_URL}\consoleText -OutFile C:\SomeLocation\SomeFile.txt

For MacOS:

curl  ${BUILD_URL}/consoleText -o /SomeLocation/SomeFile.txt

Answer 3

To get the Jenkins console log without curl or wget:

writeFile file: "jenkins_console_output.txt", text: currentBuild.rawBuild.logFile.text
sh 'sed -ri "s/\\x1b\\[8m.*?\\x1b\\[0m//g" jenkins_console_output.txt'

Explanation:

• currentBuild.rawBuild.logFile.text will return annotated log.
• \x1b\[8m.*?\x1b\[0m is a regex expression to match AnsiColorer
• sed -ri use regexp-extended and in-place to update the file

Answer 4

Open {job-url-with-build}/consoleText, and while it's loading in browser, hit Ctrl+S, and save it in local disk.