Maybe in Groovy you don’t need to escape the semicolon. The semicolon has special meaning in the shell so there it does need to be escaped, but in the Groovy command you can just pass it as the delimiter arg to -exec.
Remko. (Shameless plug) Every java main() method deserves http://picocli.info > On Jun 12, 2019, at 3:05, Sverre Moe <sverre....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Groovy is doing something strange with my execute command. > Or perhaps something wrong with my code I cannot see. > > vim find.groovy > def sout = new StringBuilder(), serr = new StringBuilder() > def proc = "find RPMS -regex '.*/package-name-[0-9.]+-.\\.x86_64\\.rpm' -exec > cp -v {} . \\;".execute() > proc.consumeProcessOutput(sout, serr) > proc.waitForOrKill(1000) > println "out> $sout" > println "err> $serr" > > Create the directory and files for testing the find.groovy > mkdir RPMS > touch RPMS/package-name-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm > touch RPMS/package-name-devel-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm > > The output from running the find.groovy seems to suggest the find command is > wrong. > groovy find.groovy > err> find: argument for «-exec» is missing > > But running it in bash works just fine: > find RPMS -regex '.*/package-name-[0-9.]+-.\.x86_64\.rpm' -exec cp -v {} . \; > 'RPMS/package-name-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm' -> './package-name-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm' > > I can reproduce the error in Bash with an additional slash at the end. > find RPMS -regex '.*/package-name-[0-9.]+-.\.x86_64\.rpm' -exec cp -v {} . \\; > find: argument for «-exec» is missing > > > /Sverre
