Quickly Migrate NuGet Packages to a New Feed En Masse

Summary

This is a very simple bash script that can assist you in migrating NuGet packages to a different Artifact feed. It’s written with Azure DevOps in mind as a target, but there’s no reason why you couldn’t use any other artifact feed as a destination.

I used the script after I ran a NuGet restore locally of a Visual Studio solution, found my .NuGet folder with all of the cached packages, placed my script in that folder, and ran it. This saved me a lot of time, migrating 102 packages while I grabbed a cup of coffee!

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echo -n "NuGet feed name?"
read nugetfeed
echo -n "NuGet feed source?"
read nugetsource
echo -n "Enter PAT"
read pat
# adding to ~/.config/NuGet/NuGet.config
nuget sources add -Name $nugetfeed -Source $nugetsource -username "az" -password $pat 
results=$(find . -name "*.nupkg")
resultsArray=($results)

for pkg in "${resultsArray[@]}"
do
    echo $pkg
    nuget push -Source $nugetfeed -ApiKey az $pkg
done

Improvement Ideas

• The username doesn’t matter in this script since when using an Azure DevOps PAT, username is irrelevant. If one was pushing to a NuGet feed that required username authentication, I would presume you would add that as an input.
• One could also add a target folder as an input too.
• Also one could use a more elaborate input mechanism to the script…