Using Java ProcessBuilder to Execute a Piped Command

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This should work:

ProcessBuilder b = new ProcessBuilder("/bin/sh", "-c", "ls -l| grep foo");

To execute a pipeline, you have to invoke a shell, and then run your commands inside that shell.

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