This is exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for. I'll dig in, thanks.
On Jan 3, 11:25 am, Roger Podacter <[email protected]> wrote: > i just replied to this thread but i guess i'm new so the post didnt go > thru? > > i just used "cat" and "echo" commands in my app we just finished > recently. the person above who mentioned getting the InputStream is > correct. i cant paste in the entire code example, but if you search > the web for "shellcommand" this is already developed to allow you to > easily perform terminal commands of this nature in your java code. it > clearly shows how to get the exec call return etc. > > i linked the source code of my app for reference on github, but i'm > probably not allowed to post links yet. > > hope this message goes thru this time. > > RP > > On Jan 3, 8:01 am, FrankG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Seems that you are looking for a terminal emulator like this one .. > > >https://github.com/jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator/wiki > > > Good luck ! > > > Frank > > > On 31 Dez. 2010, 22:48, Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I started reading that, but it still doesn't complete sense. Are there > > > any other more descriptive documents on this out there? > > > > On Dec 30, 7:33 pm, jotobjects <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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,- Zitierten Text ausblenden - > > > > - Zitierten Text anzeigen -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

