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Here you go...

Posted by Kishori Sharan on March 19, 2001 at 3:14 PM

STEP 1> Get the Runtime object
Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime ( ) ;

STEP2> Execute the Unix command
Process p = r.exec ( "your_unix_command" ) ;
// For example
/* Process p = r.exec ( "ls" ) ; */

STEP3> Get the input stream of the Unix process
InputStream in = p.getInputStream ( ) ;

STEP4> Read the output of the Unix process using InputStream in in whatever way you want.

Thanx
Kishori