Running Bash commands in Java

Question

I have the following class. It allows me to execute commands through java.

public class ExecuteShellCommand {

public String executeCommand(String command) {         


        

Answer 1

for future reference: running bash commands after cd , in a subdirectory:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

/*

$ ( D=somewhere/else ; mkdir -p $D ; cd $D ; touch file1 file2 ; )
$ javac BashCdTest.java && java BashCdTest
 .. stdout: -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Dec 28 12:47 file1
 .. stdout: -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Dec 28 12:47 file2
 .. stderr: /bin/ls: cannot access isnt_there: No such file or directory
 .. exit code:2

*/
class BashCdTest
    {
    static void execCommand(String[] commandArr)
        {
        String line;
        try
            {
            Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commandArr);
            BufferedReader stdoutReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
            while ((line = stdoutReader.readLine()) != null) {
                // process procs standard output here
                System.out.println(" .. stdout: "+line);
                }
            BufferedReader stderrReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getErrorStream()));
            while ((line = stderrReader.readLine()) != null) {
                // process procs standard error here
                System.err.println(" .. stderr: "+line);
                }
            int retValue = p.waitFor();
            System.out.println(" .. exit code:"+Integer.toString(retValue));
            }
        catch(Exception e)
            { System.err.println(e.toString()); }
        }

    public static void main(String[] args)
        {
        String flist = "file1 file2 isnt_there";
        String outputDir = "./somewhere/else";
        String[] cmd = {
            "/bin/bash", "-c",
            "cd "+outputDir+" && /bin/ls -l "+flist+" && /bin/rm "+flist
            };
        execCommand(cmd);
        }
    }