I want to exclude some files from my rsync jenkins job after the webhook triggers

Question

I am currently having the setup where check-ins from git using webhook trigger Jenkins. I want to exclude some of the files with some pattern(*.txt) to remove from the rsync up job that gets pushed to the servers.

I tried installing conditional build plugin and tried to give the option not to run if the *.txt file exists in the build but no luck. I am new to Jenkins and so not sure what steps I am missing here. Can someone please help?

Answer 1

I think you should not solve this with Jenkins, but rather with rsync . There is a parameter --exclude which takes a file pattern like *.txt . Check this article and man rsync for more information.