Command-line options in Jenkins using Jenkins CLI

You can access various features in Jenkins through a command-line tool.

Getting ready

Download the Jenkins-cli.jar file from the link available on the Jenkins dashboard.

How to do it...

1. Go to the location where Jenkins-cli.jar is downloaded and execute the java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8080/ help command to see the help of CLI commands:

2. Execute the following commands:

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8080/ version
java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8080/ who-am-i
java -jar jenkins...