[GROOVY-913] Windows Batch File Fails to Pass More than Eight Arguments

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-2
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-JSR-4
• Environment: Windows XP under cmd, msh, cygwin bash
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ryan Scharer
• Created: 21/Jun/05 13:53
• Updated: 20/Oct/05 05:57
• Resolved: 20/Oct/05 05:57

Description

The existing windows .bat file passes command line arguments to groovy with this line (for recent Windows versions, at least):
set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

Unfortunately, this won't work if your script needs more than eight arguments. Instead, the above line should be replaced with something like the following:

:set_args_loop
if "%1"=="" goto after_set_args_loop
set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%CMD_LINE_ARGS% %1
shift
goto set_args_loop

:after_set_args_loop

Not being a Windows expert myself, there may be a more elegant solution. Then again, .bats ain't elegant. Either way, something should be done to fix this issue... it makes CLI-intensive scripts unusable.