[GROOVY-3043] Command line arguments containing * (asterisk) not passed correctly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.1, 1.5.8, 1.7-beta-1
• Component/s: command line processing
• Environment: Windows XP
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Bob Swift
• Created: 17/Sep/08 22:40
• Updated: 03/May/11 08:34
• Resolved: 07/Apr/09 08:20

Description

Groovy does weird things with command line arguments containing *. Makes it very difficult to pass in things like file specs, ant specs and regex expresssions!!! A simple program that prints out the length of the args parameter passed into main procedure - a few are correct but most are wrong:

>groovy fail test
args length: 1

>groovy fail *
args length: 3

>groovy fail **
args length: 0

>groovy fail "**"
args length: 0

>groovy fail "test"  " *"
args length: 2

>groovy fail "test"  "*"
args length: 1

>groovy fail "test   *"
args length: 1

>groovy fail "*test*"
args length: 0

>groovy fail "*test*"
args length: 0

>groovy fail " *test*"
args length: 1