commons-exec

commons-exec: Executing a program on the system PATH?

I'm trying to execute a program (convert from ImageMagick, to be specific) whose parent folder exists on the path. Ergo, when I run convert from the command line, it runs the command. The following, however, fails: String command = "convert" CommandLine commandLine = CommandLine.parse(command); commandLine.addArgument(...) ... int exitV...

Streaming output with commons-exec?

Can anyone give me an example of how to stream the output of an external program executed with DefaultExecutor? I'm not finding any documentation describing how to do this. My external process will run for several hours, so just grabbing all output data isn't feasible; it must be streamed. ...

commons-exec: hanging when I call executor.execute(commandLine);

I have no idea why this is hanging. I'm trying to capture output from a process run through commons-exec, and I continue to hang. I've provided an example program to demonstrate this behavior below. import java.io.DataInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.PipedInputStream; import java.io.PipedOutputStream; import org.a...