Today I needed to use Groovy to create a dump of all MySQL databases on the MySQL server running on my local machine.

So I looked at my earlier blog entry on how to dump MySQL databases using the "mysqldump" command.

So when I issued the command create a dump from console, the contents of the database are dumped to a sql file as expected.

// Works in command line
mysqldump --all-databases -u [username] -p[password] -C > alldatabases.sql

As you might know, it is fairly straight-forward to execute shell commands from Groovy. You simply put the command in quotes and call the execute() method.

However, when I issued the same command using Groovy, the command did not work... well, at least not at first.

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