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Process builder in JAVA not working in Mac OS X

Process builder in JAVA not working in Mac OS X:

String[] command = { "mkdir", "one"};

ProcessBuilder process = new ProcessBuilder(command);

process.start();

after this "one" directory is not created in Mac 'Home' user directory.

Solution

  • You need to specify the working directory in your process builder. Setting it to user's home in Mac, you can use the system property user.home:

    ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(command);
pb.directory(new File(System.getProperty("user.home")));
pb.start();

    According to the Javadoc for java.lang.ProcessBuilder:

    Each process builder manages these process attributes:

    • ...
    • a working directory. The default value is the current working directory of the current process, usually the directory named by the system property user.dir.