Re: Executing diff.exe with System call

From:
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 5 Sep 2009 23:36:50 -0700
Message-ID:
<h7vla2$6im$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Lew wrote:

Hakan wrote:

I want to call the Windows version of the GNUDiff utilities from a
Java application with a call to the Runtime routines. I downloaded
and installed it and wrote the code that seemed to be right. This
is
the equivalence of what I have for a call trying to compare two
files
redirecting outout to a file.

String[] args=new String[5];
args[0]=C:\HL\GnuWin32\bin\diff.exe;
args[1]=C:\HL\eclipse\workspace\JIAS\getdeck.txt; (file 1)
args[2]=C:\HL\eclipse\workspace\JIAS\ddeck.txt; (file 2)
args[3]=">";
args[4]="diffres.txt" (output file)

try
{
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(args):
}
catch(IOException e)
{

}

Yet nothing happens. It compiles and runs, but the output file is
nowhere to be found. Where have I gone wrong?


Second by not looking in the right directory for "diffres.txt". It
will go in the classpath


That is, in the default directory of the process in which the JVM is
running.

because you haven't told it otherwise,
probably in the same directory as the .class file as the class you
claim "compiles and runs".

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