On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/28/2015 02:48 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote: > > In the past, when I contemplated doing this, I generally thought that > there > > wasn't enough value in such a feature for the effort, given that one can > > start a subprocess shell that supports pipelines. Does this feature pull > > its weight? > > Feeding program arguments to command spawned by a shell is difficult. > You know what would actually be really useful? String shellQuote(List<String> args) but that is Unix-shell specific, so historically difficult to convince JDK maintainers to add. But culture has changed towards the pragmatic... I've already written such a thing, but not in Java. There is also no good way to obtain the exit status of the first command > in the pipe. The last command in the pipe determines the shell exit > status, and earlier commands are ignored. > Well, bash does have the "pipefail" feature.
