Groovy: copy file, while converting line endings

Question

I am using Groovy to customize Maven assembly plugin and make my life a bit easier. Basically I would like to mimicry Maven Assembly plugin functionallity and one is to copy files while converting line endings.

What is the simplest way to copy file from A to B while converting line-endings to Unix-style?

Answer 1

You could do this (assuming the file is not too large, as it loads it all into memory)

void convertCRLF( File input, File output ) {
    output << input.text.replaceAll( '\r\n', '\n' )
}

convertCRLF( new File( '/tmp/test.txt' ), new File( '/tmp/test.fix.txt' ) )

Or maybe you could try AntBuilder with the FixCRLF task

An example of this would be:

new AntBuilder().fixcrlf( srcDir:'/tmp/inputs', eol:'lf' )

Which will convert all files in /tmp/inputs to use lf as the line-ending