Rename a file - Jenkins - jenkins

Question

As part of our pipeline I need to rename a file before it gets pushed up to GitHub. Previously this worked when running the Jenkins job on a master node, but now we run them on agents
def rename_build_file() {
print "Append Version Number to File"
// File without version
String myFile = "${WORKSPACE_PATH}/release-pipeline/project/dist/myFile.js
// File with version
String myFileNew = "${WORKSPACE_PATH}/release-pipeline/project/dist/myfile-1.0.js"
// Rename File
new File(myFile).renameTo(new File(myFileNew));
}
Within our JenkinsFile we call helper.rename_build_file() and this usually works
When i sshd onto the agent I found that I had to run sudo to manually change a filename (did not have to enter a password), am i to assume that when the Jenkins job is running it's not running as sudo
And if that's the case how could i do this running the job?
Thanks

Answer 1

When working with files across multiple agents, you should use pipeline's workflow steps like fileExists, readFile, and writeFile. You can use a combination of these steps to create a new file with the desired name in the current workspace.
def sourceFile = "release-pipeline/project/dist/myFile.js"
if (fileExists(file: sourceFile)) {
def newFile = "release-pipeline/project/dist/myFile-1.0.js"
writeFile(file: newFile, encoding: "UTF-8", text: readFile(file: sourceFile, encoding: "UTF-8"))
}

Answer 2

This can be done with the File Operations plugin:
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage('Rename') {
steps {
cleanWs()
fileOperations([fileCreateOperation(fileName: 'foo', fileContent: '')])
fileOperations([fileRenameOperation(destination: 'bar', source: 'foo')])
sh "ls -l"
}
}
}
}
The plugin has quite a list of supported file operations.