Get output of terminal command using Java

Question

For some terminal commands, they repeatedly output. For example, for something that\'s generating a file, it may output the percent that it is complete.

I know how

Answer 1

You need to read InputStream from the process, here is an example:

Edit I modified the code as suggested here to receive the errStream with the stdInput

ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder("command goes here");
builder.redirectErrorStream(true);
Process process = builder.start();
InputStream is = process.getInputStream();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));

String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
   System.out.println(line);
}

For debugging purpose, you can read the input as bytes instead of using readLine just in case that the process does not terminate messages with newLine