create-jobs.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

HOST=""
LOGIN=""
JOB=""
CLONE_COUNT=""

for i in "$@"
do
case $i in
    --host=*)
    HOST="${i#*=}"
    ;;
    --login=*)
    LOGIN="${i#*=}"
    ;;
    --job=*)
    JOB="${i#*=}"
    ;;
    --count=*)
    CLONE_COUNT=${i#*=}
    ;;
esac
done

echo ""

if [ "${HOST}" == "" ]; then
    HOST="localhost:8080/jenkins"
    echo "No host specified. Defaulting to '${HOST}'."
    echo "      Override example: --host=localhost:9090/jenkins"
    echo ""
fi
if [ "${LOGIN}" == "" ]; then
    JENKINS_URL="http://${HOST}"
    echo "No user login specified."
    echo "      Override example: --login=tfennelly:mypassword"
    echo ""
else
    JENKINS_URL="http://${LOGIN}@${HOST}"
fi
if [ "${JOB}" == "" ]; then
    echo ""
    echo " *********************************************************************"
    echo "    You must specify the name of an existing job on the Jenkins host."
    echo "    e.g. --job=pipelinexyz"
    echo " *********************************************************************"
    echo ""
    exit 1
fi
if [ "${CLONE_COUNT}" == "" ]; then
    CLONE_COUNT=20
    echo "No job clone count specified. Defaulting to ${CLONE_COUNT}."
    echo "      Override example: --count=50"
    echo ""
fi

# Get the crumb. I'm sure there's fancier ways of removing the XML tags.
CRUMB_FIELD=$(curl "${JENKINS_URL}/crumbIssuer/api/xml?xpath=//crumbRequestField" -s)
CRUMB_FIELD="${CRUMB_FIELD/\<crumbRequestField\>/}"
CRUMB_FIELD="${CRUMB_FIELD/\<\/crumbRequestField\>/}"
CRUMB_VAL=$(curl "${JENKINS_URL}/crumbIssuer/api/xml?xpath=//crumb" -s)
CRUMB_VAL="${CRUMB_VAL/\<crumb\>/}"
CRUMB_VAL="${CRUMB_VAL/\<\/crumb\>/}"

echo "Creating ${CLONE_COUNT} copies of Job '${JOB}' on ${JENKINS_URL}"
echo ""

LOCAL_FILE_NAME=.job-clone-config.xml

# copy the job from Jenkins
curl -X GET $JENKINS_URL/job/${JOB}/config.xml -o $LOCAL_FILE_NAME -s

for (( i=1; i<=$CLONE_COUNT; i++ ))
do
    NEW_JOB_NAME="${JOB}_${i}"
    curl -s -XPOST "${JENKINS_URL}/createItem?name=${NEW_JOB_NAME}" --data-binary @$LOCAL_FILE_NAME -H "Content-Type:text/xml" -H "${CRUMB_FIELD}: ${CRUMB_VAL}"
done

rm $LOCAL_FILE_NAME

Mad shell scripting skillz there