How to invoke groovy with 'java' from command line

Question

I have to ship some groovy code to some users that have only java installed (no grooy, no $groovy_home, etc). I\'m trying to invoke groovy from the commandline but I\'m havi

Answer 1

Watch out of [~]!

java -cp .:~/path-to-groovy-all.jar YourClassName     # does not work
java -cp ~/path-to-groovy-all.jar:. YourClassName     # works
java -cp .:/full/path/to/goovy-all.jar YourClassName  # works

In first line tilde is not processed by bash, and java can not understand it.

In second line tilde is replaced by bash and everything works fine.