Groovy Script for Runing Processes & Commands

Groovy is bringing power and flexibility of Java to its script environment, and making development simpler. Starting a command and runing a new process in groovy is much more pragmatic than java. String class in groovy has execute method to run content of string as in command line. For example:

"mspaint".execute()

I implemented a groovy script to run 7-Zip to compress eclipse workspaces into a backup file at specified output path. Path list of workspaces is kept in a *.properties file to easily gather them with using java.util.ResourceBundle; then use output file path and workspace path list as parameter to 7z program. In order to use ResourceBundle without problem, *.properties file must be located in the same directory with groovy script.

// TIMESTAMP OF SCRIPT START
def timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis()

def outputDir = "D:\\Projects\\Backups\\"
if(this.args.size() > 0) {
  ////////////////////////////////////////
  println "\nOUTPUT PATH: " + args[0] + "\n"
  ////////////////////////////////////////
  outputDir = args[0]
  
  // CREATING BACKUP REPOSITORY DIRECTORY; IF NOT EXISTS  
  dir = new File(outputDir)
  if(!dir.exists()){
    ////////////////////////////////////////
 println "CREATING PATH ${outputDir}\n"
 ////////////////////////////////////////
 dir.mkdirs()
  }
}

// FORMATTING DATE-TIME
def now_ = new java.util.Date()
def formatter_ = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmm")
def now = formatter_.format(now_)

////////////////////////////////////////
println "BACKUP STARTED AT " + now + "\n"
////////////////////////////////////////

// RETRIEVING WORKSPACE DIRECTORIES FROM backup.properties
def buffer = new java.lang.StringBuffer()
java.util.ResourceBundle rb = java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle("backup")
def keys = rb.getKeys()
keys.each { key -> 
  //println rb.getString(key)
  buffer.append(" " + rb.getString(key))
}

// PREPARING 7Z COMMAND TO COMPRESS WORKSPACES
def dQ = "\""
def _7z_command = dQ + "C:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7z.exe" + dQ + " a "
def inputs = buffer.toString()
def output = outputDir + "\\mywsbackups_" + now + ".7z" 
def command = _7z_command + dQ + output + dQ + " " + inputs

////////////////////////////////////////
println "RUNNING: " + command + "\n"
////////////////////////////////////////

// EXECUTING 7Z COMMAND
proc = command.execute()

// PRINT OUTPUT OF 7Z COMMAND
println proc.text

////////////////////////////////////////
println "END OF BACKUP - TOOK:" + (System.currentTimeMillis() - timestamp) + " ms\n"
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