Question

I have a script that is available on the web, and I want to run it directly by entering its url, instead of downloading it and running later. Is there a way to do it ?

Answer 1

If you want to run a groovy script from a URL from the command line, you can do the following:

groovy -e 'evaluate( new URL( "http://yoururl.com/yourscript.groovy" ).text )'

Edit

Since Groovy 1.8.3, it is possible to do:

groovy http://myserver/myScript.groovy

Obviously care must be taken with doing this either way… Running stuff straight off the internet is never best advised 😉