>>>>> Marius Schamschula writes:
Marius> Hi there,
Marius> I am having trouble getting Runtime.exec () to do anything
Marius> (yes I do send the desired command as an
Marius> argument...e.g. "/bin/ls /home/someusr/dir >
Marius> /home/someusr/test"). I've tested my code on both a
Marius> mkLinux (DR2.1u5) and Debian Linux machine running various
Marius> flavors of JDK 1.1.x. I'm trying to use Java to directly
Marius> invoke various shell scripts. I do a waitFor () for the
Marius> process to terminate, check the InputStream and
Marius> ErrorStream. The streams are empty...
Marius> Any hints?
You need a shell if you want to use '>':
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {
"/bin/sh", "-c",
"/bin/ls /home/someusr/dir > /home/someusr/test"});
Juergen
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