I want to communicate with the linux terminal with java code. I want to store the output and work with it. I implemented the code below following the instructions in given link.
I would expect the complete terminal output of help. But neither for the standard commands, nor for the mosquitto commands I get anything from the input stream. Where is the mistake? Or are you supposed to do it completely differnt?
Stackoverflow link: how to run a command at terminal from java program?
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
public class LinuxInputStream
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// Linux Terminal
String prefix = "/bin/bash";
String terminalCommand = "help";
String mosquittoCommand = "mosquitto --help";
ProcessBuilder pb1 = new ProcessBuilder(
new String[] {prefix, terminalCommand});
ProcessBuilder pb2 = new ProcessBuilder(
new String[] {prefix, mosquittoCommand});
try
{
executeCommand(pb1);
}
catch (IOException e)
{
System.out.println("IO Error in Terminal Command execution!");
e.printStackTrace();
}
try
{
executeCommand(pb2);
}
catch (IOException e)
{
System.out.println("IO Error in Mosquitto Command execution!");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static void executeCommand(ProcessBuilder pb) throws IOException
{
Process terminalCommandProcess = pb.start();
InputStream inputStream = terminalCommandProcess.getInputStream();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
String line;
int i = 0;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null)
{
System.out.println("Line: " + line);
i++;
}
if (i == 0) System.out.println("Nothing read from input stream");
}
}
Output:
Nothing read from input stream
Nothing read from input stream
Just found the solution immidiatly after the post: The "-c" part is missing. Correct code snippet is:
// Linux Terminal
String prefix = "/bin/bash";
String c = "-c";
String terminalCommand = "help";
String mosquittoCommand = "mosquitto --help";
ProcessBuilder pb1 = new ProcessBuilder(
new String[] {prefix, c, terminalCommand});
ProcessBuilder pb2 = new ProcessBuilder(
new String[] {prefix, c, mosquittoCommand});