How to customize Jenkins build name?

Question

When I run a job in Jenkins, each build is given a name that shows in the UI in Build History that\'s basically the current date and time.

I\'d like to be able to put in

Answer 1

Caveat: this only works in *nix environments. For individual shell steps you can execute instead as:

/usr/bin/env JOB_NAME="Old JOB_NAME: ${JOB_NAME}" 

Assuming your project is called "myproject", would see the JOB_NAME environment variable as "Old JOB_NAME: myproject"