Controlling cmd from java...HELP!!

[eponcedeleon]

Hi, ive been trying so many things to enter several commands from my java program but i havent been succesful. I hope someone can help...
This is what i want to do from java which i can do it manually from cmd.
Ive read this link http://www.javaworld.com/cgi-bin/mai...229-traps.html however, ive been messing around with some of the code but still have had no succes...
This is basically what i want to do (several times)

1. open cmd
2. cd \123\ABC\edf\456
3. (run this command) dsm.cmd –f CREATE –b DSKfromjava –V bb9server.bbdn.local

***dsm.cmd takes this parameters: –f CREATE –b DSKfromjava –V bb9server.bbdn.local

now i can get in java to step 2 with no problem in jave using something like this..

Runtime runTime = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process pr = runTime.exec("CMD.EXE /c START CMD.EXE /k cd /Bb9-Sicom/blackboard/apps/snapshot/bin");

[JosAH]

Instead of messing around with the code in that (good) article, copy and paste it verbatim and try again. Carefully change the code to make it do what you have in mind. Also read and try to understand what that article is trying to tell you.

kind regards,

Jos

[eponcedeleon]

what do you think I mean by messing around....that means carefully changing the code to what I am trying to do, but havent had success... I thought this forums where to help, not to critice!!

[toadaly]

Try this:

runTime.exec("dsm.cmd –f CREATE –b DSKfromjava –V bb9server.bbdn.local", null, new File("/123/ABC/edf/456"));

...replacing the bogus /123... with the proper directory.

(if you use "\123..., you must instead replace every '\' with '\\', because '\' is the escape character in java)

[eponcedeleon]

I appreciate the help, but i am gettin this error...ive tried to change the order because from my understanding cmd should be first.

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "dsm.cmd" (in directory "C:\Sicom-Bb9\blackboard\apps\snapshot\bin"): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java :459)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:431)
at Openexe.main(Openexe.java:20)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:81)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:30)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java :452)
... 3 more

[toadaly]

You're almost there. The problem is that the OS doesn't know where to find the program "dsm.cmd".

There are 3 ways you can solve that:

1. Instead of having your command be "dsm.cmd ...", provide a fully qualified path to dsm.cmd. For example, "c:/aaa/111/bbb/dsm.cmd ..."

2. Edit the PATH environment variable. In windows, you do this by opening control panel, system, advanced. You would then add the directory containing dsm.cmd to that PATH variable.

3. The second argument to runTime.exec is 'null' in the example I showed before. Instead of passing a null, you can pass define a String[] to tell it where to find dsm.cmd

String[] env = new String[] {"path=c:/aaa/111/222"};

runTime.exec("dsm.cmd –f CREATE –b DSKfromjava –V bb9server.bbdn.local", env, new File("/123/ABC/edf/456"));

The problem with option 3 is that if there are any important environment path dependencies or variables you don't know about, they won't get passed in and you could have other problems.

[eponcedeleon]

ok... so if I understood .... add the path of my .cmd to the PATH env variable (that is not a problem)
My question rises on the code you posted..

String[] env = new String[] {"path=c:/aaa/111/222"};

runTime.exec("dsm.cmd –f CREATE –b DSKfromjava –V bb9server.bbdn.local", env, new File("/123/ABC/edf/456"));

on exec, the first parameter "dsm.cmd –f CREATE –b DSKfromjava –V bb9server.bbdn.local" tell exec to execute .cmd (lucky with the change in path it will find the cmd) then -f CREATE -b .... are the parameters,
-the 2nd parameter, env, defined with String[] env = new String[] {"path=c:/aaa/111/222"}; should be the same as the PATH environment variable right...
-3rd parameter...new File("......."); this is the one that i dont know what is for

hope i explained myself. Thank you for the help!

[toadaly]

That should work, but you don't need to define PATH *and* set the env String[]. You only need to do *one* of the three actions I listed, not all three. You can if you want to, but it's not necessary.

[eponcedeleon]

thanks for the help!!

[JosAH]

thanks for the help!!

All of this is explained in the article you mentioned in your op. You were indeed just messing around instead of reading carefully.

kind regards,

Jos

[eponcedeleon]

i got the bat to work with all the parameter it takes... now I want to get the input that the bat produces so that i can see it in my console...
This is what I have...

    
Runtime runTime = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("dsm.cmd -f CREATE -V bb9server.bbdn.local -b FROMJAVA5", null, new File("C:\\SicomBb9\\blackboard\\apps\\snapshot\\bin\\"));
System.out.print(proc.getInputStream()); // simple message handling
System.out.print(proc.getErrorStream()); // error handing
proc.waitFor(); // wait until the process is not finished

Whenever i run this... this is what i get on my java console
java.io.BufferedInputStream@f62373
java.io.FileInputStream@19189e1

but the input i should be getting is something like this...

Data Source Key Description
--------------- -----------
INTERNAL Internal data source used for associating records that are created for use by the Bb system.

SYSTEM System data source used for associating records that are created via web browser.

REPLICATED Replicated data source used for root administrator.
LMS_INTEGRATION LMS Integration data source used for associating records that are created during integration sync operations.

Test_DSK
VERANO1 Descripcion del Datasource
VERANO2 Descripcion del Datasource
VERANO3
VERANO4
FROMJAVA
FROMJAVA2
FROMJAVA3
FROMJAVA4
FROMJAVA5

[toadaly]

You have moved from a simple 'launch' application into something that probably requires multiple threads...unless dsm.com just runs, then prints something, and quits.

The reason java prints out java.io.BufferedInputStream@f62373
java.io.FileInputStream@19189e1

...is because those are the references for the two objects, which is typical for objects that don't have a reasonable string representations.

[eponcedeleon]

thank you all for replying... it was fairly simple than i thought..

Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("dsm.cmd -f CREATE -V bb9server.bbdn.local -b "+snapshotFiles[i], null, new File("C:\\Sicom-Bb9\\blackboard\\apps\\snapshot\\bin\\")); 	 
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream()));
//Printing output of dsm to logfile
while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
   log.print(line);
}
proc.waitFor(); 			// wait until the process is not finished
input.close();