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This example will call the windows calculator. It's important to notice that the exit code will vary accordingly to the program/script that is being called. package process.example; import java.io.IOException; public class App { public static void main(String[] args) { try { ...

The ProcessBuilder class makes it easy to send a command through the command line. All it requires is a List of Strings that make up the commands to be entered. You simply call the start() method on your ProcessBuilder instance to execute the command. If you have a program called Add.exe which take...

In general when making a call to the command line, the program will send the command and then continue its execution. However you may want to wait for the called program to finish before continuing your own execution (ex. The called program will write data to a file and your program needs that to a...

Launching external processes from Java using the raw java.lang.ProcessBuilder API directly can be a little cumbersome. The Apache Commons Exec library makes it a little easier. The ch.vorburger.exec library further extends upon Commons Exec to make it truly convenient: ManagedProcess proc = new ...

The Runtime.exec(String ...) and Runtime.exec(String) methods allow you to execute a command as an external process1. In the first version, you supply the command name and the command arguments as separate elements of the string array, and the Java runtime requests the OS runtime system to start th...