Calling a shell script from a Groovy/Grails Application

Question

How can I call a native shell script from a Groovy / Grails Application?

The shell script resides on the same machine.

Answer 1

Put the name (preferably with an absolute path) and the arguments in a list and call execute():

['/path/to/script', 'arg1', 'arg2'].execute()

The Groovy documentation suggests to use a simple string instead. I advise against that because it can cause all kinds of problems with special characters, white space in arguments, etc.

Answer 2

You can use the Groosh module (link)