Running ssh command in a java application

Hi there!
I am trying to run a ssh command from a java application cause I need to store the result.
Actually I can run this command in the cygwin shell so I need to open the shell and run the command, all trough java.
so, what my process needs to do is:
1) open the cmd
2) run C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
3) execute the ssh command
ssh -l fip-user ipdb fip 42704) print the result of the ssh command.
Note that the cygwin opens in the same command line window and so will print it's result to the same process inputstream
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RBervini

Use "Runtime.getRuntime().exec()" to execute the SSH program,
and you can then get the output of the SSH program
via the getInputStream() method on the returned Process object.
Note: there are many pitfalls with this. In particular, most people don't know
they should create separate threads to drain the input/output pipes.
See this excellent classic article http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2000/jw-1229-traps.html
on how to do it right.

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