Passing arguments to JVM from eclipse

Question

When running a program from eclipse, I get an error like java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no driJNI in java.library.path
I tried the -Djava.library.path={whatever} in the VM arguments. However, I still get the error of unsatisfied link. When try setting the property in the code with:
System.setProperty("java.library.path","{whatever}");
System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.library.path"));
the output remains : null.
anyother suggestions? if i just use command line the problem goes away. however, i'd like to be able to make eclipse work.
Thanks.

Answer 1

It is called a here-document, as in "The Document is Right Here".
anycommand_that_reads_stdandardin <<UNIQUE_STRING
stuff to be
read by the
command via
its standard input
UNIQUE_STRING
The typical convention is to use EOD for the unique string as in End-of-Data, but any string that will NOT occur in the body of the text starting in column 1 is fine. And keep the string simple, no spaces, tabs, funny characters, etc...
This is similar to putting all of the text between the <<EOD and EOD into a file and then invoking the command with:
anycommand_that_reads_stdandardin <file.with.data
The advantage of the here-document is that you do not need to have a separate file, or do a bunch of echo statements into file so you can pass it as input to the command, and then remember to clean up the temp file later.
In addition, the here-document allows shell substitutions to occur, which is just what you needed for your osascript work.
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