groovy - Gradle String Replacement - no placeholders

Question

Is it possible to do simple string replacement in gradle where placeholders / tokens can not be used.

For example: given temp.txt replace all occurences of xxx with yyy.

Answer 1

Read the text in:

String contents = new File( 'whatever.txt' ).getText( 'UTF-8' ) 

Replace the text

contents = contents.replaceAll( 'xxx', 'yyy' )

Write the text out again

new File( 'replaced.txt' ).write( contents, 'UTF-8' )

You should be able to wrap them into a task and call the task as normal