How to execute a java script with jshell?

Use

//usr/bin/env jshell --show-version --execution local "$0" "$@"; exit $?

as the first line of test.jsh. The test.jsh script could look like:

//usr/bin/env jshell --show-version "$0" "$@"; exit $?
System.out.println("Hello World")
/exit

The command line option --show-version is optional, of course, but gives immediate feedback that the tool is running.

The extra command line option --execution local prevents jshell to spawn another VM. This speeds up launch time and if an exception is thrown by your script code, the local VM will exit.

Consult the output of jshell --help and jshell --help-extra for more options.

Update

Also take a look at https://github.com/jbangdev/jbang Having fun with Java scripting, which offers a neat wrapper around running .java files from the command line.

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