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  1. servlets and shell scripts (5 messages)

    Hi All,

    I am trying a wierd combination of using shell scripts to run jobs on server. I need some parameters to be passed to scripts from HTML form, I am trying to use servlets for this. Can one advice how to pass parameters to shell script using servelts ans HTML form.

    Thank you,
    Ashish
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    Ashish,

    If you are using Oracle as a Database, it is possible to do what you want by making the Servlet invoke an External Proc which in turn can kick off a Shell script.

    If you are not Using Oracle then sorry for this answer.
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    It shouldn't be too hard. You'll have to fork a process with Runtime.getRuntime().exec(...). Read your params from the request, build your command-line, and feed it to Runtime.exec().

    Andy
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    Thanks Andy,

    Reading parameters from request is clear and so is for the script to read command line parameter. Can you please elaborate on how to build a command line.

    Thanks
    Ashish
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    just a comment to compliment this... pass parameters as an array of strings... rather than a complete string, the first element is the actual command followed by the arguments... its faster that way....so Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmdArray);
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    Thanks Aditya for the comment.
    Can you giude me where can I get additional related details?

    -ashish
    ashish@sgi.com
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