How do I include jars in a groovy script? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Adding to @Patrick his answer, which helped me a lot, I recently discovered another trick.

If you add lots of jars to the classpath all on one line, things can become quite unreadable. But you can do the following!

#!/bin/bash
//bin/true && OPTS="-cp blah.jar -Dmyopt=value"
//bin/true && OPTS="$OPTS -Dmoreopts=value2"
//usr/bin/env groovy $OPTS "$0" $@; exit $?

println "inside my groovy script"

Let your imagination run wild on how complex a command line you can break down this way into manageable pieces

Maarten