Can I use wildcards(like *) inside Runtime.exec() to execute grep command?
Created May 4, 2012
Sandip Chitale You can use -
Process pr =
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/bin/sh -c 'grep -l "string" *'");
This works (on most Unices and Linux)
because the interpretation of wild cards is
really done by the shell process. And above that is what you are doing by executing /bin/sh. For windows it will be
command.com or cmd.exe depending on Win95 or
WinNT with a /K flag.