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Going on learning Groovy, I faced the following case: how to call an external shell (or MS-DOS) command from a Groovy script?

It is very easy. The following example show how to display the Subversion status of the current folder:

def proc = "svn st"
def sb = new StringBuffer()
proc.consumeProcessErrorStream(sb)

println proc.text + "\n" +  sb.toString()