Jason Janelle wrote:
>
> Hi fellow coders,
> I have been writing java on WindowsNT boxes for a while and am just
> trying out java on Linux. I was trying to issue a command to the
> system via this line of code:
>
> Runtime.getRuntime().exec("ls > dir.txt");
>
> It compiles and such but I get no dir.txt. I tryed a waitFor()
> statement but no help. In windows you have to do "cmd /c dir >
> dir.txt" in the exec() and I was wondering if you have to specify a
> shell for linux to run in as well. BTW I'm running Mandrake 7.0.
> Any Ideas?
Output redirection is a feature of the command line shell, /bin/csh, /bin/sh,
/bin/bash, etc. /bin/ls doesn't know what to do with
>. Try:
"/bin/sh ls >dir.txt"
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