Re: [slug-chat] Java and processes...

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Steven downing was once rumoured to have said:

> <cursing currently restricted web access>

> I know I should ask this elsewhere, but right now e-mail is all the
> access I've got.
>
> Any Sluggers out there know if Java can start external processes,
> similar to Python's spawn kind of thing.
>

Yes.  Look at java.lang.Runtime - method 'exec'.

So what you'd do would be something like:

    Runtime myRuntime = java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime();
    myRuntime.exec("MyCommand");

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