I am now on a linux machine. I have a Java program which would run some linux command, for example ps, top, list or free -m.
The way to run a command in Java is as follows:
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("free -m");
How could I collect the output by Java program? I need to process the data in the output.
To collect the output you could do something like
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("my terminal command");
p.waitFor();
BufferedReader buf = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
p.getInputStream()));
String line = "";
String output = "";
while ((line = buf.readLine()) != null) {
output += line + "\n";
}
System.out.println(output);
This would run your script and then collect the output from the script into a variable. The link in Joachim Sauer's answer has additional examples of doing this.