GROOVY(1)

💖 NAME 💖

Groovy — the agile dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine 🫶✨ (it's a groovy(1) situation, bestie, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, iykyk)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the whole vibe — the usage is literally this:

groovy [options] [args]

and then, options: 👇 (every single one, no skips, we do not gatekeep 💅)

✨ options: ✨

• -D, --define <name=value> — you're defining a system property. that's the whole thing. go off. 🎀
• -a, --autosplit <splitPattern> — automatically splits the current line for you (and lowkey the default is '\s', so it just knows) ✂️
• -c, --encoding <charset> — say which encoding the files are in. be specific, bestie, files deserve to be understood 🧚
• -d, --debug — debug mode!! it will print out full stack traces, like the entire dramatic backstory, no tea left unspilled 💀
• -e <script> — specify a command line script right there on the command line. main character energy ✨
• -h, --help — usage information, aka the cheat sheet 👑
• -i <extension> — modifies files in place, and it creates a backup if you give it an extension (e.g. '.bak'). protect yourself, queen 🙈
• -l <port> — listens on a port and processes inbound lines. it's giving server era 🌈
• -n — processes files line by line 📄
• -p — processes files line by line and prints the result. yes, both. we love a multitasker 💅
• -v, --version — displays the Groovy and JVM versions, so you can flex which ones you're running ⭐

🔥 COMMANDS 🔥

groovy:

the command that runs a set of Groovy statements — either ones you typed on the command line (with -e), or ones stored in a text file whose name you hand it on the command. 📜

example:

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

literally iconic. that one line ate. 🍓

groovysh:

a terminal-based interpreter for Groovy. living in your shell, being cozy 🐚💜

groovyConsole:

a GUI interpreter for composing Groovy interactively. windows and buttons but make it Groovy 🪟✨

java2groovy:

the java2groovy tool reads class and interface definitions written in the Java programming language and converts them into groovy source files. glow-up service, fr fr 🦋

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• groovyc(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was generated using help2man and edited by Varun Hiremath <varun@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). king behaviour, honestly 👑

ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and groovy 🫶

December 2007, from the General Commands Manual (section 1) — that's the source and the date, wrapped up with a bow 🎀💖