Running

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If you install a binary distribution of Groovy then you can run the Groovy Swing console by typing this on the command line.

groovyConsole

For a command line interactive shell type

groovysh

To see how to add things to the classpath see below.

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There is a helper class called GroovyShell which has a main(String[]) method for running any Groovy script. You can run any groovy script as follows

java groovy.lang.GroovyShell foo/MyScript.groovy [arguments]

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There are shell scripts called 'groovy' or 'groovy.bat' depending on your platform which is part of the Groovy runtime.
Once the runtime is installed you can just run groovy like any other script...

groovy foo/MyScript.groovy [arguments]

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The following is a sample script, which you should copy and save as helloWorld.groovy.

#!/usr/bin/env groovy
println("Hello world")
for (a in this.args) {
  println("Argument: " + a)
}

Then to run the script from the command line, just make sure the script is executable then you can call it.

chmod +x helloWorld
./helloWorld

Note that you will not be able to provided any arguments to groovy when running with the shebang(#!) on Linux because the arguments are treated as part of the name of the command to run. Mac OS X will interpret additional arguments correctly.

Adding things to the classpath

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