how to capture wget command output inside groovy

Question

I am execution a wget command inside my groovy code, the command is like this:

cmd /c C:/wget.exe -q -O - <my-URL>

When i actually run this command from cmd or windows run util, it works fine. But when i try to run this from within my groovy code, I don't see the output. How can i capture the output of this within groovy.

Thanks!

maybe a dup: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/882772/capturing-stdout-when-calling-runtime-exec — Ray Tayek, Oct 06 '11 at 20:08
groovy has a specific way of grabbing that content that is the more general java version — dstarh, Oct 06 '11 at 20:09

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '11 at 20:08

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Instead of using wget why not just use groovy to get you the content:

def data = new URL(myUrl).getText()

answered Oct 06 '11 at 20:08

dstarh

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But im getting below error while running above command for HTTPS URL - 20:01:55 at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:99) 20:01:55 at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:432) 20:01:55 Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused) 20:01:55 at java.base/java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) 20:01:55 at java.base/java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:399) 20:01:55 at java.base/java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.j – Rahul kuchhadia Oct 01 '21 at 14:36

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '11 at 20:09

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"cmd /c C:/wget.exe -q -O - <my-URL>".execute().text

But new URL("<my-URL").text might be a better way to load an url without relying on wget.

answered Oct 06 '11 at 20:09

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how to capture wget command output inside groovy

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