How to replace deprecated Project.exec(Closure)

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Fortunately, I finally found an example that contained the missing pieces. After copying the following into build.gradle, the recipe above works as desired without deprecation warnings.

def gitVersionProvider = providers.exec {
    commandLine "cat", "foo"
}

task testVersion(type: Exec) {
    inputs.property "pipelineVersion", gitVersionProvider.standardOutput.asText.get().trim()
    outputs.file "$buildDir/build.properties"

    commandLine "touch", "$buildDir/build.properties"
}