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I want to copy text files and only text files from src/ to dst/
groovy:000> "cp src/*.txt dst/".execute().text ===> groovy:000>
You can see the command executes w/out error but the file src/test.txt does not get copied to dst/
This also fails:
groovy:000> "cp src/* dst/".execute().text ===> groovy:000>
However...
"cp src/this.txt dst/".execute().text
works
Also,
"cp -R src/ dst".execute().text
works
Why dose the wild card seem to cause my command to silently fail?
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Executing shell commands using Groovy is very easy. For example If you want to execute any unix/linux command using groovy that can be done using execute() method and to see the output of the executed command we can append text after it.
A Groovy shell is a command-line application that lets you evaluate Groovy expressions, functions, define classes and run Groovy commands. The Groovy shell can be launched in Groovy projects.
The 'cmd /c' at the start invokes the Windows command shell. Since mvn. bat is a batch script you need this. For Unix you can invoke the system shell.
Thanks tedu for getting me half way there.
I believe the reason that his solution didn't work was because of an 'escaping' issue.
For instance...
"sh -c 'ls'".execute()
works. But...
"sh -c 'ls '".execute()
does not.
There is probably a way to escape it properly in line there but the workaround I'm using is to pass a string array to Runtime.getRuntime().exec
command = ["sh", "-c", "cp src/*.txt dst/"] Runtime.getRuntime().exec((String[]) command.toArray())
works beautifully!
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