DESCRIPTION

usage: groovy [options] [args] options:

-D,--define <name=value>

define a system property

-a,--autosplit <splitPattern>

automatically split current line (defaults to '\s')

-c,--encoding <charset>

specify the encoding of the files

-d,--debug

debug mode will print out full stack traces

-e <script>

specify a command line script

-h,--help

usage information

-i <extension>

modify files in place, create backup if extension is given (e.g. '.bak')

-l <port>

listen on a port and process inbound lines

-n

process files line by line

-p

process files line by line and print result

-v,--version

display the Groovy and JVM versions

COMMANDS

groovy:

Command to run a set of Groovy statements entered on the command line (with -e), or stored in a text file whose name is given on the command.

example: groovy -e 'System.in.readLines().each { println it }'

groovysh:

Terminal-based interpreter for Groovy.

groovyConsole:

GUI interpreter for composing Groovy interactively.

java2groovy:

The java2groovy tool reads class and interface definitions, written in the Java programming language, and converts them into groovy source files.

RELATED TO groovyConsole…

AUTHOR

This manual page was generated using help2man and edited by Varun Hiremath <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).