Java read file by command line, <(less than) symbol

Question

I am trying to read the filename by the command line,

This is command that our professor wants us to type:

java MultiBinaryClient xxxxxx.edu 6001 <         


        

Answer 1

I know it's an old question, but I've had this problem recently. Here's what I've done to handle it:

Well, as the others said, the "<" redirects the file contents to stdin. If you want to use the file contents as program arguments, you can use xargs:

xargs -a FILE java JAVA_ARGS

or, more specifically:

xargs -a FILE java -cp CLASSPATH CLASS_WITH_MAIN_METHOD