Using groovy, how do you pipe multiple shell commands?

Question

Using Groovy and it\'s java.lang.Process support, how do I pipe multiple shell commands together?

Consider this bash command (and assume your username i

Answer 1

You can do this to just let the shell sort it out:

// slash string at the end so we don't need to escape ' or $
def p = ['/bin/bash', '-c', /ps aux | grep ' foo' | awk '{print $1}'/].execute()
p.waitFor()
println p.text