Using Groovy and it's java.lang.Process
support, how do I pipe multiple shell commands together?
Consider this bash command (and assume your username is foo
):
ps aux | grep ' foo' | awk '{print $1}'
This will print out usernames – one line for some processes related to your user account.
Using Groovy, the ProcessGroovyMethods documentation and code says I should be able to do this to achieve the same result:
def p = "ps aux".execute() | "grep ' foo'".execute() | "awk '{print $1}'".execute()
p.waitFor()
println p.text
However, I can't get any text output for anything other than this:
def p = "ps aux".execute()
p.waitFor()
println p.text
As soon as I start piping, the println does not print out any anything.
Thoughts?
Best Answer
This works for me :
for an unknown reason, the parameters of awk can't be send with only one string (i don't know why! maybe bash is quoting something differently). If you dump with your command the error stream, you'll see error relative to the compilation of the awk script.
Edit : In fact,
"-string-".execute()
delegate toRuntime.getRuntime().exec(-string-)
"grep ' foo'".execute()
execute the command grep, with'
as the first parameters, andfoo'
as the second one : it's not valid. the same for awk