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I want to copy text files and only text files from src/ to dst/
groovy:000> 'cp src/*.txt dst/'.execute().text ===> groovy:000>
You can see the command executes w/out error but the file src/test.txt does not get copied to dst/
This also fails:
groovy:000> 'cp src/* dst/'.execute().text ===> groovy:000>
However…
'cp src/this.txt dst/'.execute().text
works
Also,
'cp -R src/ dst'.execute().text
works
Why dose the wild card seem to cause my command to silently fail?
Wildcard expansion is performed by the shell, not by cp (or groovy). Your first example is trying to copy a file named *. You could make your command ‘sh -c ‘cp …”