Is it possible to run a Bash script from Maven?

Question

For creating configuration of my application I need to run bash script. Is it possible to integrate execution of Bash scripts in Maven, maybe there are some plugins?

Answer 1

If at all possible, I'd recommend using a scripting language that runs inside the JVM with dependencies that are captured either in your project or in the maven repository. That way your builds are platform independent and your dependencies are captured (i.e. you don't loose the build machine and realize your bash script was specific to that box). I showed an example in this post of using jacl. There are also good examples of using javascript and groovy inside antrun (though there may be more straightforward ways of calling them directly).