Faheetah

node {
    echo 'Results included as an inline comment exactly how they are returned as of Jenkins 2.121, with $BUILD_NUMBER = 1'
    echo 'No quotes, pipeline command in single quotes'
    sh 'echo $BUILD_NUMBER' // 1
    echo 'Double quotes are silently dropped'
    sh 'echo "$BUILD_NUMBER"' // 1
    echo 'Even escaped with a single backslash they are dropped'
    sh 'echo \"$BUILD_NUMBER\"' // 1
    echo 'Using two backslashes, the quotes are preserved'
    sh 'echo \\"$BUILD_NUMBER\\"' // "1"

textarcana

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Use this one-liner to produce a JSON literal from the Git log:

git log \
    --pretty=format:'{%n  "commit": "%H",%n  "author": "%aN <%aE>",%n  "date": "%ad",%n  "message": "%f"%n},' \
    $@ | \
    perl -pe 'BEGIN{print "["}; END{print "]\n"}' | \
    perl -pe 's/},]/}]/'