Question

I need to call some Unix commands from my Servlet.
I have some Perl script, but I want to “translate” them into Java.
Here is something that I want to do on Java, but that I’ve made in Perl:

system("myfolder/myscript.sh > /myfolder/logs/myscript.log");

Is it possible to do this on a Servlet?

Answer 1

Yes, but note that redirect is part of the shell you will want:

ProcessBuilder pb = 
   new ProcessBuilder("/bin/sh", "-c", "myfolder/myscript.sh > /myfolder/logs/myscript.log");
pb.start();