Re: Capturing stdout from shell script
On 3/15/2011 10:23 AM, Nigel Wade wrote:
On 15/03/11 13:46, Mark wrote:
Hi,
We have the following code to call a shell script:
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process proc = rt.exec(scriptName );
int exitVal = proc.waitFor();
log.info("Returned Value is: " + exitVal);
How can get access to the output from the shell script (normally from
stdout)?
You may be better off these days using ProcessBuilder, and combining
stdout and stderr using ProcessBuilder.redirectErrorStream(). Then all
you need do is use the Process.getInputStream() to read both stdout and
stderr.
Whether to combine them or not depends on what they contain, and how you
will be processing the output. Often, processing a mix of two types of
messages, one including error messages that can be difficult to predict
and test, is more difficult than processing the two types of messages
separately.
I often have two Runnable stream processors, each in its own thread,
doing different things. Typically, the one attached to standard out is
parsing it to extract a result. The one attached to standard error does
logging.
Patricia
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