support `command arguments` notation (backticks) for executing scripts

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  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
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  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: parser
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We should support `cmd` to be syntax sugar for this...

"cmd".execute()

which returns an instance of java.lang.Process. In addition if this expression is used within a String it should make a GString which extracts the output of the command in the middle of the string.

e.g.

println "blah `command` blah"

it should behave like

println "blah ${`command`.text} blah"

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Guillaume Laforge added a comment -

Not planned to be supported.
We can already execute commands easily with execute()

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Guillaume Laforge added a comment - Not planned to be supported. We can already execute commands easily with execute()
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chris snow added a comment -

I have found that writing shell scripts in groovy is too verbose, and have reluctantly decided to use jruby instead as it is much more succinct due to it's support of backticks.

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chris snow added a comment - I have found that writing shell scripts in groovy is too verbose, and have reluctantly decided to use jruby instead as it is much more succinct due to it's support of backticks.

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    Reporter:
    james strachan
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