Question

I’ve tried looking into process builder, but I’m not sure how to source the bash environment into the process.

For example I’m using the following to launch my process:

Process p = new ProcessBuilder(args).start();
InputStream is = p.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);

And I’d like my standard shell environment (from /etc/profile, .bashrc, etc.) sourced to the process.

Sorry if I’m not using the right terms – still learning java.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

You need to set up a shell invocation with ProcessBuilder. Execute a command like:

/bin/bash -l -c "The entire command line that you want to execute"

When constructing theProcessBuilder pay attention to pass the command to execute as one unified string, e.g:

new ProcessBuilder("bash", "-l", "-c", "ps ax")