ProcessBuilder cannot run bat file with spaces in path

• Don’t quote commands in a command list, unless the command been executed expects it, this will just stuff things up
• user.dir is your programs current executing context…so it actually makes no sense to include it, you could just use midl.bat by itself (assuming the command exists within the current execution context)

I wrote a really simple batch file…

@echo off
dir

Which I put in my “C:\Program Files” directory, as I need a path with spaces and used….

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class RunBatch {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(
                        "cmd", "/c", "listme.bat"
        );
        pb.directory(new File("C:/Program Files"));
        pb.redirectError();
        try {
            Process process = pb.start();
            InputStreamConsumer.consume(process.getInputStream());
            System.out.println("Exited with " + process.waitFor());
        } catch (IOException | InterruptedException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public static class InputStreamConsumer implements Runnable {

        private InputStream is;

        public InputStreamConsumer(InputStream is) {
            this.is = is;
        }

        public static void consume(InputStream inputStream) {
            new Thread(new InputStreamConsumer(inputStream)).start();
        }

        @Override
        public void run() {
            int in = -1;
            try {
                while ((in = is.read()) != -1) {
                    System.out.print((char) in);
                }
            } catch (IOException exp) {
                exp.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

    }

}

To run it without any issues…