I’m trying to use the @argfile option for the Groovy compiler as shown in the documentation. This command works to compile my application:

groovyc -cp config-1.4.2.jar HelloWorld.groovy

However, if I take everything after groovyc and put it in a file called “args”, I get an error:

groovyc @args
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
-cp config-1.4.2.jar HelloWorld.groovy: -cp config-1.4.2.jar HelloWorld.groovy (
The system cannot find the file specified)

To simplify, I even tried just putting -v in the args file and again, it tells me that it couldn’t find -v.

What am I doing wrong?