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Re: How to call an external script/prgm and wait until execution is finished?

Date	2012-03-08 11:26 -0500
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: How to call an external script/prgm and wait until execution is finished?
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On 3/8/2012 11:20 AM, Sven Fischer wrote:
> I want to call from inside a java program an external script (resp. prgm) and wait
> until the execution is finished (successfuly or not).
>
> How can I do this?
>
> For simplicity assume the external script is either an DOS batch scipt (Windows) or shell script (Linux).
>
> How can I ask from inside the Java program for the return/exit code?

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Process.html#waitFor%28%29

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Process.html#exitValue%28%29

Arne

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How to call an external script/prgm and wait until execution is finished? Svenfischer2@email.com (Sven Fischer) - 2012-03-08 16:20 +0000
  Re: How to call an external script/prgm and wait until execution is finished? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-08 11:26 -0500
  Re: How to call an external script/prgm and wait until execution is finished? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-03-08 16:59 -0800

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