Programming Groovy 2

10.8 Using Groovy Scripts from Groovy

Groovy scripts hold statements and expressions not necessarily confined to a particular class in the source code. We can directly exercise these using the ​groovy​ command. We can also invoke them from other Groovy scripts and classes using the ​GroovyShell​ class. Let’s look at an example:

println "Hello from Script1"

Here we have a file named ​Script1.groovy​, and we want to execute that script as part of executing another Groovy script, ​Script2.groovy​, shown here:

println "In Script2"
shell = new GroovyShell()
shell.evaluate(new File('Script1.groovy'))

// or simply
evaluate(new File('Script1.groovy'))

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