Jenkins No such file or directory error. But the file exists

Question

I have a problem with running bash script as a job in Jenkins (Execute shell step). Basically I narrowed my script to be one line now to test why Jenkins fails to run it. Here it is:

waxsim

So it is just one line. That should give me this output when ran without parameters:

No app-path was specified!
usage: waxsim [options] app-path
example: waxsim -s 2.2 /path/to/app.app
Available options are:
    -s sdk  Version number of sdk to use (-s 3.1)
    -f family   Device to use (-f ipad)
    -e VAR=value    Environment variable to set (-e CFFIXED_HOME=/tmp/iphonehome)
    -a  Available SDKs
    -v path Output video recording at path
    -h  Prints out this wonderful documentation!

Jenkins runs as a jenkins user. When the job is ran it fails with:

+ waxsim
/var/folders/gx/t63prwt53w7gr2jjt9k66q9800009c/T/hudson4478539334800834890.sh: 
line 3: waxsim: No such file or directory
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure

When I execute waxsim manually, logged in as a jenkins user, everything works fine. It works for every user on the machine. It does not work only when executed in Jenkins job. Anyone knows what may be the issue?

I tried specifying the full path to waxsim, which is: /usr/bin/waxsim but it makes no difference.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The reason why it works when ran in the Terminal and it doesn't when ran by Jenkins turned out to be trivial.

In the Terminal I run bash, and Jenkins is using shell. Thus, adding exporting the PATH to the Jenkins' execute shell script solved the issue.

Answer 2

Simply adding #!/bin/bash to the top of your shell execution should give you the desired results.