Question

In the following program am giving name as “don” so the command will search activedirectory
with all the names starting with don (like donald etc). But the line2 variable becomes null after the assignment from reader object and it never goes into the loop. What am i doing wrong? FYI: the command works when i give it on the command line.

try {
    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(
        "dsquery user -name " + name + "* -limit 200|dsget user -samid -display");
    p.waitFor();
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
            new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
    String line2 = reader.readLine();
    HashMap<String,String> hmap = new HashMap<String,String>();
    while (line2 != null) {
        line2 = line2.trim();
        if (line2.startsWith("dsget")||line2.startsWith("samid")) {
            continue;
        }
        String[] arr = line2.split(" ",1);
        hmap.put(arr[0].toLowerCase(),arr[1].toLowerCase());
        line2 = reader.readLine();
    }
    reader.close();
    line2 = reader.readLine();
}

Answer 1

If I am not mistaken, the pipe (or redirection) requires to launch the programs with cmd.exe.
Something like:

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c dsquery user -name " + name + "* -limit 200|dsget user -samid -display");