CentOS 7 - How to Install Groovy From Binary

This blog shows you how to install Groovy on your CentOS 7

Download the "Binary Release" from this website: http://groovy-lang.org/install.html

# wget https://bintray.com/artifact/download/groovy/maven/apache-groovy-binary-2.4.8.zip

Extract the package:

# unzip apache-groovy-binary-2.4.8.zip

Move package to "/usr/local"

# mkdir /usr/local/groovy
# mv groovy-2.4.8 /usr/local/groovy
# cd /usr/local/groovy
# ln -s groovy-2.4.8 ./latest

Update bash profile:

# vim .bash_profile
Add
# Add Groovy PATH
export GROOVY_HOME=/usr/local/groovy/latest
export PATH=$PATH:$GROOVY_HOME/bin
# . .bash_profile
# groovy
 groovy
error: neither -e or filename provided
usage: groovy [options] [args]
options:
  -a,--autosplit <splitPattern>    split lines using splitPattern (default '\s')
                                   using implicit 'split' variable

  -b,--basescript <class>          Base class name for scripts (must derive from
                                   Script)

  -c,--encoding <charset>          specify the encoding of the files

  -classpath <path>                Specify where to find the class files - must
                                   be first argument
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