I am facing some problem in running shell script from a java program. The script runs fine when executed from the terminal. But, when executed from the java program, not whole script is executed. My java code to implement shell script execution is:

File file = new File("/path/to/script");
String COMMAND= "./run";
ProcessBuilder p = new ProcessBuilder(COMMAND);
p.directory(file);

try {
Process start= p.start();

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();
}

It seems only the first line is executed. "run" is the script name. I am using Ubuntu. The script is:

#start of script
java net.tinyos.sf.SerialForwarder -comm serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:telosb
if cygpath -w / >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then CLASSPATH="oscilloscope.jar;$CLASSPATH" else CLASSPATH="oscilloscope.jar:$CLASSPATH" fi
java Oscilloscope
#end of script

Any suggestions why the whole script is not being executed? I observed that only the 1st command was executed.

Thanks.

Presumably you are seeing evidence that java net.tinyos.sf.SerialForwarder starts. Do have have any evidence that it finishes?

Presumably you are not seeing any evidence that java Oscilloscope starts.

You could "instrument" the script to see what it does do

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Adding the debug lines on the script had the following output in the tmp/DebugFile:

DEBUG: java net.tinyos.sf.SerialForwarder returned
DEBUG: test failed
DEBUG: calling java Oscilloscope
DEBUG: java Oscilloscope returned; script exiting

It shows that the end of the script is reached. But, why doesn't java Oscilloscope start? Is it because of the Classpath settings inside the script?

Ashish.

Try
I suspect you have no (or minimal) env settings in the new cmd shell ...

Actually, try this at the top

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Hi,

which java >>$tmp_file: gave the following output:
/usr/bin/java

Does it say that the execution is taking place from that directory? But, what about p.directory(file)? It should set the directory to the new one specified in the java code. I couldn't find where the problem is.

Thanks.