Launching a shell script from Java

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Mark - 16 Jan 2008 17:31 GMT

What's the trick to launch a shell script from Java? I would have
thought the System class would have had this, but does not appear to.
Surely, Java would be capable of this, right?

Mark

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Roedy Green - 16 Jan 2008 18:04 GMT

>What's the trick to launch a shell script from Java? I would have
>thought the System class would have had this, but does not appear to.
>Surely, Java would be capable of this, right?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/exec.html

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Nigel Wade - 17 Jan 2008 09:48 GMT

>>What's the trick to launch a shell script from Java? I would have
>>thought the System class would have had this, but does not appear to.
>>Surely, Java would be capable of this, right?
>
> see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/exec.html

and also look through the archives of the comp.lang.java.* hierarchy for the
past 2-3 months. There have been several threads on this topic which give
detailed information regarding the pitfalls and gotchas inherent in using the
various Runtime.exec() methods.

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