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Program can't be found in PATH by Java Runtime on Mac OS X

I am using ImageMagick on Mac OS X (10.7). I installed it with the help of MacPorts.

When I now enter the Terminal and write: 

identify image.jpg

it is working perfectly fine.

But now while executing it from within Java, the following exception gets thrown:

org.im4java.core.CommandException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: identify

I can see it's on the PATH by running:

which identify

with the response:

/opt/local/bin/identify

Now while running:

echo $PATH

I get the response:

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

The same code works perfectly on Windows where ImageMagick is also installed.

So why is im4java not finding identify in the PATH at all?

Solution

  • Try setting the search path to the target directory:

    import org.im4java.process.ProcessStarter;
ProcessStarter.setGlobalSearchPath("/opt/local/bin");