Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process pr = rt.exec("java -jar map.jar time.rel test.txt debug");

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.html

I hope the code below can help you. First you have a shell script that takes parameters.

#!/bin/bash
echo "hola"
echo "First arg: $1"
echo "Second arg: $2"

You save it in e.g. /home/dac/proj/javatest2016/src/main/java/myshellScript.sh and then you can pass the parameters from your Java code.

import java.io.*;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        try {
            ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("/home/dac/proj/javatest2016/src/main/java/myshellScript.sh", "myArg1", "myArg2");
            pb.directory(new File("/home/dac/proj/javatest2016/src/main/java"));
            Process p = pb.start();
            StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer();
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
            String line = "";
            while ((line = reader.readLine())!= null) {
                output.append(line + "\n");
            }
            System.out.println("### " + output);
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            t.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Test

### hola
First arg: myArg1
Second arg: myArg2

Couple of things that are happening incorrectly here:

• We need to pass our command as string tokens to the exec() command
• We need to wait for the process to exit with process.waitFor() instead of sleeping, this will block the current thread so if you don't want that you need to execute this in another thread or use an ExecutorService.
• Advisable to check the output value of waitFor() to see if our command executed properly (value of 0) or not (any other value, typically a positive 1 in case of unsuccessful execution)
• Optionally (to see the output) we need to redirect the standard OUT and ERR somewhere, say print it to console(), though you could put it to a file some GUI window etc.

So at a minimum the following code should work:

Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {"cmd", "/c", "cd", "C:\\dev", "&&", "dir"});
int outputVal = process.waitFor();
boolean alive = process.isAlive();
System.out.format("alive %s, outputVal: %d\n",alive, outputVal);

Further suggestions:

• use ProcessBuilder instead of runTime.exec(), it allows more control and is the recommended way since JDK 1.5
• read the inputStream

So the code will look some thing like this:

    List<String> cmdList = Arrays.asList("cmd", "/c", "cd", "C:\\dev", "&&", "dir");
    ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(cmdList);
    pb.redirectErrorStream(true); //redirect STD ERR to STD OUT
    Process process = pb.start();
    try (final BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()))) {
        String line = null;
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
              System.out.println("std-out-line: " + line);
        }
    }
    int outputVal = process.waitFor();
    System.out.format("outputVal: %d\n", outputVal);

Since waitFor() is a blocking call, you can execute this in a separate thread or using an executorService. Sample code here:

    final StringBuffer outputSb = new StringBuffer();
    ExecutorService executorService = null;
    try {
        executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
        final Future<Integer> future = executorService.submit(new Callable<Integer>() {

            @Override
            public Integer call() throws Exception {
                try (final BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
                        new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()))) {
                    String line = null;
                    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                        outputSb.append("std-out-line: ");
                        outputSb.append(line);
                        outputSb.append('\n');
                    }
                }
                int exitValue = process.waitFor();
                System.out.format("exitValue: %d\n", exitValue);

                return exitValue;
            }
        });

        while (!future.isDone()) {
            System.out.println("Waiting for command to finish doing something else..");
            Thread.sleep(1 * 1000);
        }

        int exitValue = future.get();
        System.out.println("Output: " + outputSb);

    } finally {
        executorService.shutdown();
    }

One way to run a process from a different directory to the working directory of your Java program is to change directory and then run the process in the same command line. You can do this by getting cmd.exe to run a command line such as cd some_directory && some_program.

The following example changes to a different directory and runs dir from there. Admittedly, I could just dir that directory without needing to cd to it, but this is only an example:

Copyimport java.io.*;

public class CmdTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder(
            "cmd.exe", "/c", "cd \"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\" && dir");
        builder.redirectErrorStream(true);
        Process p = builder.start();
        BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
        String line;
        while (true) {
            line = r.readLine();
            if (line == null) { break; }
            System.out.println(line);
        }
    }
}

Note also that I'm using a ProcessBuilder to run the command. Amongst other things, this allows me to redirect the process's standard error into its standard output, by calling redirectErrorStream(true). Doing so gives me only one stream to read from.

This gives me the following output on my machine:

C:\Users\Luke\StackOverflow>java CmdTest
 Volume in drive C is Windows7
 Volume Serial Number is D8F0-C934

 Directory of C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server

29/07/2011  11:03    <DIR>          .
29/07/2011  11:03    <DIR>          ..
21/01/2011  20:37    <DIR>          100
21/01/2011  20:35    <DIR>          80
21/01/2011  20:35    <DIR>          90
21/01/2011  20:39    <DIR>          MSSQL10_50.SQLEXPRESS
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               6 Dir(s)  209,496,424,448 bytes free

I am not sure if you are asking about Shell command execution, or ipconfig in general.

If the first is the case here: Yep, you can use Runtime.getRuntime.exec(). Related Answers (In Stackoverflow):

1. Executing shell commands from Java
2. Want to invoke a linux shell command from Java

Moreover to the answers provided there, here is my example on how you do it with "host -t a" command for DNS lookups. I would generally recommend to read through the list you get and append them in an String for logging purposes.

p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("host -t a " + domain);
p.waitFor();
     
BufferedReader reader = 
  new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
     
String line = "";           
while ((line = reader.readLine())!= null) {
    sb.append(line + "\n");
}

The other solution which herausuggested was to use ProcessBuilderand execute the command from there. For this you need to use Java SE 7 upwards. Here is an example that starts a process with a modified working directory and environment, and redirects standard output and error to be appended to a log file:

 ProcessBuilder pb =
   new ProcessBuilder("myCommand", "myArg1", "myArg2");
 Map<String, String> env = pb.environment();
 env.put("VAR1", "myValue");
 env.remove("OTHERVAR");
 env.put("VAR2", env.get("VAR1") + "suffix");
 pb.directory(new File("myDir"));
 File log = new File("log");
 pb.redirectErrorStream(true);
 pb.redirectOutput(Redirect.appendTo(log));
 Process p = pb.start();
 assert pb.redirectInput() == Redirect.PIPE;
 assert pb.redirectOutput().file() == log;
 assert p.getInputStream().read() == -1;

If you wanna know more about ProcessBuilder, read through the documentation: Oracle Documentation on Class ProcessBuilder