Shell script & runtime

Question

Hi,
I have an application that needs to run a shell script and this shell script has some arguments.
This is the shell script :
#!/bin/tcsh -f
source ~tripos/setup/ta_root
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${TA_3DB}/lib:${TA_ROOT}/lib_share
unsetenv LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH
# update PATH so that dbtranslate can be found
source $TA_3DB/lib/login
source $TA_ROOT/lib/.login
$1
...and this is my application :
import java.io.*;
public class DBtest {
     private static Process proc;
     public static void main (String[] args) {
          String runScript = "/usr/people/camm/guillli1/project/test/test_env.sh \'dbtranslate -type smiles -translate sln -input /usr/people/camm/guillli1/project/test/dbtest/process0.smi -output /usr/people/camm/guillli1/project/test/dbtest/process1.smi +kekule +standardize +sybyl\'";
          System.out.println(runScript + "\n");
          try {
               proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(runScript);
               InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(proc.getErrorStream());
               BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
               String line = null;
               while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) System.out.println(line);
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.out.println ("ERROR....." + e.toString());
}the problem is : when I launch the application, java displays and error message :
'dbtranslate: Command not found.
Why the shell doesn't take the entire String that is between the ' ' ?
This script works fine when I launch it in the shell...

Answer 1

put the parameters in a string array and the same to the exec method of runtime. in your case
String[2] params = {"/usr/people/camm/guillli1/project/test/test_env.sh ","'dbtran...."};
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(params);