How to abort Jenkins build from shell script?

Question

I see that returning a non-zero integer in shell script executing on Jenkins will make the result marked as a failure.

How do I make it change to Aborted? Is there a plugin to do this? Can I avoid having to use GroovyScript?

Answer 1

Instead of returning a non-zero integer and having the build fail, you could trigger an Abort on the build using its Rest API within the shell build step.

Example using curl:

curl -XPOST $BUILD_URL/stop

Example using wget:

wget --post-data="" $BUILD_URL/stop