Invoking shell script from java

I hava a shell script on a unixbox which needs to be invoked through a web application. How do I do it? What is the method to login,and then invoke the shell script? Also, should the password be directly mentioned in the java file?

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I just posted a snippet of this solution in the topic about widows commands chech it out it works just fine for unix shell scripts.
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How to execute unix shell script from Java ...

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Anyone know how to execute unix shell script from Java?
Suppose I have several shell scripts written in perl or tcl or bash.
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Is there any ready to use module/object for this?
Please let me know, this is quite urgent for my study assigment.
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me

Look up Runtime.exec()

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above is the code snippet of java program for calling the shellscript
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Example: Executing a shell script from java

Hi. There are many other posts in the forums related to executing a unix script from java, but I wanted to post another example that I thought might be helpful...
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- Hope this helps.

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import java.util.*;
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at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
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at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
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