Shell Programming and Scripting

Try

Code:

/usr/bin/ls from the command prompt.

cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

if you run /bin/sh you will get a shell.
much like clicking start,run, cmd.exe

if you want to run the command ls, you should just be able to run ls from within java's system call type code thing. (I dont write java so not sure of correct wording)


if you want to pass the ls command the /bin/sh then you would need something like:

Code:

echo "ls" | /bin/sh

this will work but is very odd way of getting things done.

can you post a few lines of java example you what your doing??

Thanx all.

Unfortunately this is 3rd party vendor program written in . I just have the war file.

Do you know teh reason why it does not work. Is that the expected behaviour ?

Try using

Code:

/bin/sh -c '<command here>'

, that should work for most cases. But usually on UNIX you shouldn't have to open a command terminal and then execute your command, since most are stand-alone programs.