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Groovy shell

Last modified: 17 March 2022

Tools | Groovy Shell

Make sure you have the Groovy project opened.

A Groovy shell is a command-line application that lets you evaluate Groovy expressions, functions, define classes and run Groovy commands. The Groovy shell can be launched in Groovy projects.

note

We recommend that you use the Groovy interactive console that is available in any project including the Java one.

Item

Tooltip and Shortcut

Description

the Stop button

Stop

CtrlF2

Click this button to stop the current process.

Clicking the button once invokes soft kill allowing the application to catch the SIGINT event and perform graceful termination (on Windows, the Ctrl+C event is emulated). After the button is clicked once, it is replaced with the Kill Process button indicating that subsequent click will lead to force termination of the application, for example on Unix SIGKILL is sent.

the Close button

Close

CtrlShiftF4

Click this button to close the selected tab of the Run tool window and terminate the current process.

Tool WindowRun

Execute Groovy Code CtrlEnter

Run code, entered in the console.

See also

Procedures