Change Jenkins Workspace Format To Windows

Question

I am running a job from Linux-based Jenkins onto a Windows Agent where I am looking to build a docker image.

When the job starts to run, the workspace begins with E:/jenkins_agent/Workspace format which is not supported in windows.

I am looking for a way to replace '/' in the WORKSPACE with '' in the jenkinsfile right before I execute my command on the windows machine, I am not interested in changing that on the Jenkins server as there are Linux agents running as well.

I tried every trick I found online but none of them actually worked.

Any help will be greatly appriciated.

Answer 1

I found the solution. I changed the agent root directory in the agent management page to 'e:\jenkins_agent' instead of 'e:/jenkins_agent' and that did the trick for the entire workspace format.

I hope this will help someone in the future :)