Bamboo artifact definition syntax examples

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Summary

My artifact copy pattern is not selecting the right files.

Solution

An artifact is defined in Bamboo by the use of an Ant Copy Pattern and a location relative to the top of the build directory.

Many approaches can be used to select files to be included as an artifact so there are bound to be many ways to do this.

At this time, we only provide functionality for the inclusive identification of files, not exclusion.

There are three parts to defining an artifact:

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The Name will be how you can refer to the artifact in later stages.

The Location. This is a way of applying the selection pattern to a location deeper in the build directory. See the examples below.

The Copy pattern. This is the regular expression that will determine what gets selected.

EXAMPLES

The easiest way to define an artifact is to find a "location" as close as possible to the actual artifact elements and then use a simple pattern to select those files.

Given a file structure below which is inside a PROJ-PLAN-JOB directory:

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You can use the following artifact definitions to extract particular sets or combinations of files that will make up that artifact:

Name

Location

Copy pattern

All the files that are Jars (no txt files) under ArtifactTest

PROJ-PLAN-JOB/ArtifactTest

**/*.jar

Everything under ArtifactTest, including subdirectories and their files

PROJ-PLAN-JOB/ArtifactTest

**/*

All Files in the firstDir, but not subdirectories

PROJ-PLAN-JOB/ArtifactTest/firstDir

firstDir/*

All Files and subdirectories within firstDir

PROJ-PLAN-JOB/ArtifactTest/firstDir

firstDir/**

All Files in the filesDir

PROJ-PLAN-JOB/ArtifactTest/firstDir/secondDir/filesDir

firstDir/secondDir/FilesDir/*

Only jars in the filesDir

PROJ-PLAN-JOB/ArtifactTest/firstDir/secondDir/filesDir

firstDir/secondDir/FilesDir/*.jar

A good article that contains more examples can be found here:

Updated on April 14, 2025

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