Running a shell script from JFrame using user input (Swing)

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Firstly I should say that the Java application, once created, will be run on a raspberry pi so will have access to Unix X terminal in order to run shell scripts.

I have a swing JDialog with a text box and a button. The button currently opens the results JDialog, I just now have to try and figure out the workings to get a result.

The user will input a hostname into the text box, then click the button.

On click of the button I need to execute a bash shell in unix; I have the path I'll just need to append this path with "/multiping single hostname". I should say that multiping runs a script with cases whereby single pings a single host.

I then need to read the results of an output file and pass them to the results JDialog.

I am a novice with Java unfortunately and am using netbeans which isnt the most fun I've ever had, but any pointers or help or anything would be really well received.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:49:21Z

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You can access your dialog's content, as shown here. You can invoke ping using ProcessBuilder, as shown here. To avoid blocking the event dispatch thread, use a SwingWorker to publish() interim results from the background thread and update your GUI in process().

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