Retrieve created NuGet package filename from 'nuget pack' command?

Question

I'm writing a script that will automatically pack and publish Nuget files to my private repository (a fileshare) and a private symbol server (on localhost).

When I run nuget pack in Powershell I get a string output that contains the file location of both the nuget and symbol package, but as far as I can tell there's no way to programmatically get those paths without parsing the string. The package version is determined by the .csproj itself, so I don't necessarily know which version will be placed in the filename.

Here's the output from the pack command:

Attempting to build package from 'MyProject.csproj'.
Building project 'C:\Users\me\prg\MyProject.csproj' for target framework '.NETFramework,Version=v4.0'.
Packing files from 'C:\Users\me\prg\bin\Release'.
Using 'Myproject.nuspec' for metadata.
Successfully created package 'C:\nuget\MyProject.1.0.0.0.nupkg'.

Attempting to build symbols package for 'MyProject.csproj'.
Building project 'C:\Users\me\prg\MyProject.csproj' for target framework '.NETFramework,Version=v4.0'.
Packing files from 'C:\Users\me\prg\bin\Release'.
Using 'MyProject.nuspec' for metadata.
Successfully created package 'C:\nuget\Myproject.1.0.0.0.symbols.nupkg'.

Should I just bite the bullet and write some regex to parse out the "successfully created package" lines?

Answer 1

By default nuget pack will output the created packages to the current directory. You can override this by specifying the OutputDirectory option. It is not clear to me from where you run the nuget command (be it from within C:\Users\me\prg\, C:\nuget\, or somewhere else), so you might already know this, but it can offer you an alternative option:

You can create yourself a temporary directory (e.g. C:\nuget\temp\), which you can specify as your OutputDirectory option. If you then in your script make sure that this directory is empty before you run nuget pack, your can simply copy *.nupkg to your fileshare (and then afterwards move it to C:\nuget\, if that is required).