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This is how you do it :)

Posted by Jakob Schoenberg on December 18, 2001 at 3:52 PM

> I want to run the command
> ls -l | grep x
> from within a Java program.

Because Runtime does not recognize |,
you have to send the command to a shell, like this:

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {
"/bin/sh","-c", "ls -l | grep x "
});

Regards,
Jakob