Embed a Date into a Build Artifact

Question

I have a build plan that produces a zip file as an artifact. Right now, it is called build.zip. I was wondering if it possible to name it based off the Date or Rev of the build such as build_01_19_18_rev12345.zip. I wanted to try to help avoid people mixing up builds, since currently their download folder will just have a series of generic build.zip files.

Cory Mohling · Answer

Awesome thank you very much.

Steffen Opel [Utoolity] · Answer

Yes, but only with an indirection - you can manipulate the variable values in a script, write them to a file, and then inject them again as new variables by means of one of the following tasks:

* the built-in Bamboo Variables task
* David Ehringer's YAML and JSON Variables Loader
* llucIT Software's Variable Extractor Tasks for Bamboo

You can then refer to the newly injected variables from subsequent tasks.

Cory Mohling · Answer

Thanks for the response. Is there any way to set the value of a bamboo variable from within a script? Or do some string manipulation of other bamboo variables? Example, could I just get the date without the time.