NAME

       Groovy - Agile dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine

DESCRIPTION

       usage: groovy [options] [args] options:

       -D,--define <name=value>
              define a system property

       -a,--autosplit <splitPattern>
              automatically split current line (defaults to '\s')

       -c,--encoding <charset>
              specify the encoding of the files

       -d,--debug
              debug mode will print out full stack traces

       -e <script>
              specify a command line script

       -h,--help
              usage information

       -i <extension>
              modify files in place, create backup if extension is given (e.g. '.bak')

       -l <port>
              listen on a port and process inbound lines

       -n     process files line by line

       -p     process files line by line and print result

       -v,--version
              display the Groovy and JVM versions

COMMANDS

       groovy:
              Command  to  run  a set of Groovy statements entered on the command line (with -e), or stored in a
              text file whose name is given on the command.

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

       groovysh:
              Terminal-based interpreter for Groovy.

       groovyConsole:
              GUI interpreter for composing Groovy interactively.

       java2groovy:
              The java2groovy tool reads class and  interface  definitions,  written  in  the  Java  programming
              language, and converts them into groovy source files.

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).

                                                  December 2007                                        GROOVY(1)