Groovy: parse a file line by line, split, sort unique list of words

I know, in bash this would be a one liner... however when things become more complicated, your bash code becomes hell, while Groovy maintains its readability

print "Hello, welcome to the WordParser 1.0\n"

rootDir = "C:\\pierre\\downloads\\istdaseinmensch\\"
myfile = new File(rootDir + "Levi,_Primo_-_Ist_das_ein_Mensch.txt")

myWords = []
countWords = 0
countLines = 0

myfile.eachLine { line ->
 if (line.trim().size() == 0) {
  return null
 } else {
  countLines++
  words = line.split("[^A-Za-z0-9]+")
  for (theWord in words) {
      if (theWord.length() > 0 && !Character.isDigit(theWord.charAt(0))) {
 countWords++
 myWords.add(theWord.toLowerCase())
      }
  }
 }
}

print "countLines=" + countLines + " countWords=" + countWords + "\n"

myUniqueWords = myWords.unique().sort()

print "unique words = " + myUniqueWords.size() + "\n"

new File(rootDir + "out.txt").withWriter { out ->
 myUniqueWords.each {
  out.println(it)
 }
}

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PS try doing this in Puppet, it will be ready by the end of time and meanwhile most of the functions you have used are no longer supported.