Groovy is arguably the wrong language choice, even if it worked fine in other aspects. The string handling situation alone is crazy, which is compounded if you

Groovy is arguably the wrong language choice, even if it worked fine in other aspects. The string handling situation alone is crazy, which is compounded if you are using it with bash (which has its own crazy ideas about string escaping). That's a not too uncommon scenario. You end up with this: https://gist.github.com/Faheetah/e11bd0315c34ed32e681616e41279ef4 https://gist.github.com/Faheetah/e11bd0315c34ed32e681616e412...