Changeset 660

Timestamp:

01/07/14 16:08:46 (10 years ago)

Author:

jts21

Message:

Add action to execute external programs and return their output. Only really useful on *nix.

File:

• trunk/src/org/expeditee/actions/Misc.java (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/src/org/expeditee/actions/Misc.java

@@ -7 +7 @@
 import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
 import java.awt.image.VolatileImage;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.net.URL;
@@ -1533 +1535 @@
         }
         
-        public static Text settings() {
-                Text t = DisplayIO.getCurrentFrame().createNewText("Settings");
-                Settings.generateSettingsTree(t);
-                return t;
+        public static String exec(String cmd) throws Exception {
+                
+                String[] command;
+                
+                // run command through sh if possible
+                if(System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("win") == -1) {
+                        command = new String[] { "sh", "-c", cmd };
+                } else {
+                        command = cmd.split("\\s+");
+                }
+                
+                ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(command);
+        pb.redirectErrorStream(true);
+        Process ps = pb.start();
+    
+        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ps.getInputStream()));
+        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
+        String line;
+        while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
+            sb.append(line).append('\n');
+        }
+        ps.waitFor();
+        in.close();
+        
+        if(sb.length() > 0) {
+                sb.deleteCharAt(sb.length() - 1);
+        }
+                return sb.toString();
         }
 }