Run external program from Java, read output, allow interruption

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Here’s an example of what I think you want to do:

ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(args);
pb.redirectErrorStream(true);
Process proc = pb.start();

InputStream is = proc.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);

String line;
int exit = -1;

while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
    // Outputs your process execution
    System.out.println(line);
    try {
        exit = proc.exitValue();
        if (exit == 0)  {
            // Process finished
        }
    } catch (IllegalThreadStateException t) {
        // The process has not yet finished. 
        // Should we stop it?
        if (processMustStop())
            // processMustStop can return true 
            // after time out, for example.
            proc.destroy();
    }
}

You can improve it 🙂 I don’t have a real environment to test it now, but you can find some more information here.

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