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I am trying to accomplish two things: I am running cygwin on Windows7 to execute my unix shell commands and I need to automate the process by writing a Java app. I already know how to use the windows shell through Java using the 'Process class' and Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c dir") . I need to be able to do the same with unix commands: i.e.: ls -la and so forth. What should I look into? Is there a way to remember a shell's state? explanation: when I use: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c dir") , I always get a listing of my home directory. If I do Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c cd <some-folder>") and then do Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c dir") again, I will still get the listing of my home folder. Is there a way to tell the process to remember its state, like a regular shell would? It seems that the bash command line proposed by Paŭlo does not work: C:\cygwin\bin>bash -c ls -la -la: ls: command not found I am having trouble figuring out the technicalities. This is my code: p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe -c ls -la"); reader2 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream())); line = reader2.readLine(); line ends up having a null value. I added this to my .bash_profile: #BASH export BASH_HOME=/cygdrive/c/cygwin export PATH=$BASH_HOME/bin:$PATH I added the following as well: System Properties -> advanced -> Environment variables -> user variebales -> variable: BASH , value: c:\cygwin\bin Still nothing... However, if I execute this instead, it works! p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("c:\\cygwin\\bin\\ls -la ~/\"Eclipse_Workspace/RenameScript/files co

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