How do you get output from command in Java - java

I am working on a project in Java where I am trying to get the size of the terminal window. I have found that stty size returns the size in rows and columns which I am fine with.
My problem is to get the values using Java. So far I have this:
ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder();
processBuilder.command("stty", "size");
try {
Process process = processBuilder.start();
InputStreamReader is = new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream(), "UTF-8");
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(is);
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
This outputs:
[I#6ce253f1
However, when I just run stty size on my own, I get 30 213. I assume it is some sort of encoding issue but I am not sure.

Try
ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder();
processBuilder.command("stty", "size");
processBuilder.redirectErrorStream(true);
processBuilder.redirectInput(ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT);
try {
...
Then you get an error message which is written to the error channel, too. And the input channel is set to the same input channel the Java process is using.

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Using Java ProcessBuilder() to run Noxim Simulator

Basically, I have a problem which is, I am using ProcessBuilder () to run Noxim simulator from java IDE, but neither the shell opened nor the results returned. It just displayed this error :
Exit with error code: 127
I tried the same code to execute the ping command, and it worked and returned the output shown in the shell. I also used the code run Kdeveloper and it worked well.
Note: the path is correct as It worked well in the shell
ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder();
processBuilder.command("/home/sa/Bureau/NOXIM/noxim/bin/noxim");
try {
Process process = processBuilder.start();
int exitCode = process.waitFor();
System.out.println("\nExited with error code : " + exitCode);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
It's important to read the error stream too. I guess you see some more messages. Have a look here: https://gist.github.com/th-schwarz/041e13ede396a869c7681b5ad637460c
The easiest way is to read the error stream too is:
processBuilder.redirectErrorStream(true);

Grab CloudCompare Command Line Output with Java ProcessBuilder

I'm playing a bit around with a small JAVA gui for the command line mode of cloudcompare.
Therefore I'm using a short snippet like these:
var processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder();
try {
var process = processBuilder
.command("open", "-a", "CloudCompare.app", "-n",
"--args", "-NO_TIMESTAMP", "-C_EXPORT_FMT", "LAS",
"-O", "/Users/se/pcl_1.las",
"-O", "/Users/se/pcl_2.las",
"-MERGE_CLOUDS")
.start();
String error, line;
BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
while ((line = inputStream.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println("line = " + line);
}
BufferedReader errorStream = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getErrorStream()));
while ((error = errorStream.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println("error = " + error);
}
var ret = process.waitFor();
System.out.printf("Program exited with code: %d", ret);
} catch (IOException | InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
But if I run it on macOS the command line window opens, the process runs normal, but I can't grab any of the informations in it. There is an option to write log files from cloudcompare. That works - the log file shows that all cloud processing steps are done.
Does anybody knows, how to grab the command line output?
As mentioned here, the /usr/bin/open command is not an option to grab the stdinput stream.
I change the command to /Applications/CloudCompare.app/Contents/MacOS/CloudCompare and it works.
The next question is, how to grab the InputStream with a thread. I tried some stack overflow topics, but it doesn't work at the moment, to get the output stream in realtime. It is flushed at the end of the CloudCompare process.

Bash real time output from java run

I have the following bash script, example.sh that has some lines of code.To reproduce what I need let's say that I have in the script the following lines:
#!/bin/bash
echo First part of program
sleep 3
echo Second part of program
So, when I run this directly from terminal I get the first part printed to the screen(First part of program) then wait 3 seconds and after that I get the next part on the screen(Second part of program). When I run this in java, I execute the scipt, wait 3 seconds then I get both parts printed on screen. Is there a way to get the same effect as when running from terminal?
EDIT!
This is my code:
public void executeCommand(String command) {
String line;
StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer();
Process p;
try {
p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
p.waitFor();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
line = "";
while ((line = reader.readLine())!= null) {
output.append(line + "\n");
}
setOutput(output.toString());
output = new StringBuffer();
BufferedReader error = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getErrorStream()));
line="";
while ((line = error.readLine())!= null) {
output.append(line + "\n");
}
setError(output.toString());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
If you start your script with the Process-Class then you can fetch the output of the script with for example:
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("<bashname>", "<scriptpath>");
Process p = pb.start();
OutputStream ops = p.getOutputStream();
There must be the output immediatly.
SOLVED: redirect output and error into files using:
ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder("sh",command);
builder.redirectOutput(new File("out.txt"));
builder.redirectError(new File("err.txt"));
try{
Process p = builder.start();
}catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}

Get output java complie from cmd

I have a project that use command prompt to complie java file,then print the result in console,this is mycode.
public static void main(String[] args) {
String line;
String output = "";
try {
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("java helloworld");
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
output += (line + '\n');
}
input.close();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.print(output);
}
But it show nothing,although it work with another command,please help me.
As one of the commenters mentioned this might result in quite complex setups you are running into. It is most likely in your case that an error happens in java and you just do not see the output since error messages are written to the STDERR stream instead of STDOUT.
So there are two options (1) you take the code you already have and also try to read from the process' ErrorStream.
Bufferedreader error = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getErrorStream());
Or if you do not care whether or not the process you were starting was writing to STDERR or to STDOUT you can also use a ProcessBuilder and just set it up to redirect the error stream.
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("java", "helloworld");
pb.redirectErrorStream(true); // this redirects STDERR to STDOUT
Process p = pb.start();
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
output += (line + '\n');
}
input.close();
For the sake of simplicity I omitted all the boilerplate code and exception handling in the above. But I think you will get the idea.
Why are you using the Process builder and executing the same. Why not use JavaCompiler interface. See the documentation it is really well written.

Executing Bash Script Returns Null In Java

I'm using UBUNTU/LINUX
I'm trying to build swing application for myself(this app need to work other platforms too) and i can not execute some commands on java.I tried to execute "java -version"
Here is my code:
Runtime run = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process p = run.exec("java -version");
try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()))) {
for (String output = br.readLine(); output != null; output = br.readLine()) {
System.out.println(output);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
It returns blank page no output!
However i can execute run.exec("ls") / or ("gedit") and so on... and I GET DATA
Also i can execute internal programs that in my computer.
Why i cant execute .sh files or built-in java commands and getting blank page?
You should use ProcessBuilder to mix standard and error outputs:
ProcessBuilder run = new ProcessBuilder("java", "-version");
run.redirectErrorStream(true);
Process p = run.start();
try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()))) {
for (String output = br.readLine(); output != null; output = br.readLine()) {
System.out.println(output);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
Check that java parent directory is in your PATH variable (output System.getenv("PATH")) or use a full path to the binary.
For script, use /bin/sh like that ProcessBuilder run = new ProcessBuilder("/bin/sh", "/path/to/your/script");
All path can be absolute starting with /, or relative (without /) to System.getProperty("user.dir").
The jvm itself directs output to the error stream
try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getErrorStream()))) {

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