Calling groovy execute cross platform

Question

I am currently using gmaven plus to run a groovy command inside maven.

The command (for the sake of example) would be

git help

If I run it on linux I can do:

'git help'.execute().text.trim()

This however doesn't work on windows. Instead I need to do:

'cmd /C git help'.execute().text.trim()

Is there a cross platform way of doing this?

Answer 1

Seeing that it worked for others got me thinking and indeed the problem was with my own PATH configuration;

Apparently, if you define git in the path as follows:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin"

then when running from command it will find git. However, groovy will NOT find it.

On the other hand, if you define git in the path as follows:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin

i.e. without the "". Then everything works fine.

see also https://serverfault.com/questions/349179/path-variable-and-quotation-marks-windows