How to hide basic steps

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Hello,

So I have been trying to find a way to turn off logging basic pipeline steps like pwd(), fileExists(), readFile() or sh(), and I can’t seem to find a way.

I also tried looking into re-implementing fileExists() (without basic steps), so I wouldn’t get the steps showing up, but it seems pretty problematic. These steps show up hundreds of times since our groovy logic is pretty complex, which means a large portion of our logs is absolutely unnecessary or basically just clutter.

Surely there is a way right?

Any help and pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Jenkins 2.528.3
On the UI under pipeline steps, and on the Pipeline Graph plugin:

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I found this in the meantime
hideFromView

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The hideFromView step/block that you’ve found is really the only good option at the moment.

I have created a few wrapper global vars in our jenkins shared library for common steps like fileExists. If you haven’t done something like this already, it’s an easy way to replace a pipeline step with the ‘hidden’ variant quickly across the entire library:

#!groovy
// vars/fileExistsHidden.groovy

/*
 * Wrapper step to call fileExists pipeline step within a hideFromView block
 * so the step is hidden from pipeline visualization
 */ 

public boolean call(String file) {
    boolean result = false
    hideFromView {
        result = fileExists(file)
    }
    return result
}