Started by user Matthias Mueller org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: WorkflowScript: 8: illegal string body character after dollar sign; solution: either escape a literal dollar sign "\$5" or bracket the value expression "${5}" @ line 8, column 8. echo "git checkout $(git show-ref --verify --quiet refs/heads/${xxx} || echo '-b') ${xxx}" ^ 1 error at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.failIfErrors(ErrorCollector.java:310) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.addFatalError(ErrorCollector.java:150) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.addError(ErrorCollector.java:120) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.addError(ErrorCollector.java:132) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.SourceUnit.addError(SourceUnit.java:350) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.transformCSTIntoAST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:139) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.parseCST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:110) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.SourceUnit.parse(SourceUnit.java:234) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$1.call(CompilationUnit.java:168) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.applyToSourceUnits(CompilationUnit.java:943) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:605) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.processPhaseOperations(CompilationUnit.java:581) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:558) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.doParseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:298) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:268) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parseClass(GroovyShell.java:688) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parse(GroovyShell.java:700) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsGroovyShell.doParse(CpsGroovyShell.java:129) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsGroovyShell.reparse(CpsGroovyShell.java:123) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsFlowExecution.parseScript(CpsFlowExecution.java:516) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsFlowExecution.start(CpsFlowExecution.java:479) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.run(WorkflowRun.java:268) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:415) Finished: FAILURE