Cannot initialise the project derectory

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when i put the gradle wrapper in a folder then try to initialise the project by command ./gradlew init this error msg displays. what does this meaning and what should i do?

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper

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    Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

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BUILD FAILED in 858ms