Kscript Tools

Easy way to run shell command line in kotlin and other tools

Usage

Used in kscript:

@file:DependsOn("com.sealwu:kscript-tools:1.0.22")

Used in normal kotlin gradle projects

add into gradle dependencies

dependencies {
    implementation("com.sealwu:kscript-tools:1.0.22")
}

APIs

runCommand

Run a bash/shell command in kotlin code, also can run multi-lines bash/shell scripts

execute next kotlin code

"ls".runCommand()

output on console:

Applications   Downloads      MavenDep       Pictures       iOSProjects
Desktop        IdeaProjects   Movies         Public         scripts
Documents      Library        Music          StudioProjects

evalBash

Run a bash/shell command in kotlin code, also can run multi-lines bash/shell scripts, The different with runCommand is that it can get the command run standard output and error output

execute next kotlin code

val date = evalBash("date").getOrThrow()  //execute shell command `date` and get the command's output and set the content to date variable
println(date) //This will print Fri Aug 19 21:59:56 CEST 2022 on console
val year = date.substringAfterLast(" ") // will get 2022 and assign to `year`
println(year)

output on console:

Fri Aug 19 21:59:56 CEST 2022
2022