If you can do it as a one-liner in Bash, then you're not using the JVM. The benefit of using Apache Groovy for scripting is access to the JVM (and of course def

If you can do it as a one-liner in Bash, then you're not using the JVM. The benefit of using Apache Groovy for scripting is access to the JVM (and of course defining Gradle builds). If you don't need the JVM, then do it in Python or Ruby.