I try to start a program via the Windows command shell out of Java and experience errors I cannot solve myself. I use a ProcessBuilder to pass the arguments to the command shell.
Snippet:
try{
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
list.add("cmd.exe");
list.add("/c");
list.add("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\TightVNC\\tvnserver.exe -controlservice -connect 172.20.242.187");
ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder(list);
System.out.println(builder.command());
builder.redirectErrorStream(true);
Process p = builder.start();
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
String line;
while(true){
line = r.readLine();
if(line == null) { break; }
System.out.println(line);
}
} catch {...}
My problem is that the whitespaces in the path to the program are ignored. Console output:
[cmd.exe, /c, C:\Program Files (x86)\TightVNC\tvnserver.exe -controlservice -connect 172.20.242.187] Der Befehl "C:\Program" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden.
(C:\Program cannot be found).
On the web i found similar problems even on StackOverflow and other websites did it exactly as I did, see an example at Run cmd commands through java with the difference I passed the arguments as a list mentioned in http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/lang/processbuilder_command_list.htm
So I do not understand why my command is not working. I appreciate any help
Edit I have to add the path dynamically so I cannot pass the arguments when creating the ProcessBuilder object.
