Thanks. Do the /$ designate a begin/end fo the commands I want to execute?
So using my example, I do
String cmd = /$
IFS=" " read -ra LINE <<< `ls -al | grep some_file`
echo ${LINE[4]}
/$
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:20 PM Nelson, Erick <erick.nel...@hdsupply.com>
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> String cmd = /$
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> What you want to shell out and execute here
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> Remember, java shells out as sh, not bash or your shell of choice
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> /$
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> // output and error can be any class that implements Appendable
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> StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder()
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> StringBuilder error = new StringBuilder ()
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> Process proc = cmd.execute()
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> proc.waitForProcessOutput(output, error)
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> println proc.exitValue()
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> Erick Nelson
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> Senior Developer – IT
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> HD Supply Facilities Maintenance
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> (858) 740-6523
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> *From: *Chris Fouts <chrisfo...@ziftsolutions.com>
> *Reply-To: *"users@groovy.apache.org" <users@groovy.apache.org>
> *Date: *Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 10:58 AM
> *To: *"users@groovy.apache.org" <users@groovy.apache.org>
> *Subject: *Running a shell script with return value?
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> Inside groovy, I want to write a shell script that parses the output of
> some shell command and get some string value back. How can I get the value
> of the shell command?
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> For example say I want to get the file size of some_file, I'll do
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> x = sh returnStatus: true, script: '''
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> IFS=" " read -ra LINE <<< `ls -al | grep some_file`
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> echo ${LINE[4]}
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> '''
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> How can I store the value of ${LINE[4]} in a groovy variable to use later?
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> Thanks,
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> Chris
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