Capture the output of an external program in JAVA

Question

I\'m trying to capture output of an external program using java but I can\'t.

I have the code to show it, but not to put it into a variable.

I will use, for

Answer 1

Use Apache Commons Exec, it will make your life much easier. Check the tutorials for information about basic usage. To read the command line output after obtaining an executor object (probably DefaultExecutor), create an OutputStream to whatever stream you wish (i.e a FileOutputStream instance may be, or System.out), and:

executor.setStreamHandler(new PumpStreamHandler(yourOutputStream));