You get an InputStream from the Process returned by the exec call.
Read and study the javadoc for java.lang.Runtime an java.lang.Process.

On Dec 30, 3:14 pm, Jay <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also want to be able to run commands like 'ls' and 'cat'
>
> On Dec 30, 5:09 pm, Jay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I want to be able to show dmesg
> > logs and logcat output in an app I'm writing. I know that I'm supposed
> > to use Runtime.getRuntime().exec(), however other than that, I'm
> > pretty lost. I tried to find some examples, but couldn't.
>
> > Can someone here give me some information on how to do this? Maybe
> > point me to some example code. Aside from doing the following in my
> > code:
>
> > Runtime.getRuntime().exec("dmesg");
>
> > or
>
> > Runtime.getRuntime().exec("logcat");
>
> > I'm not sure what else to do to be able to read dmesg and logcat
> > outputs.
>
> > Thanks,

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