IT Tools and Technologies with Examples: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program in Shell Scrip (Java Runtime.getRuntime().exec())

IOException while executing the unix shell command by java, Runtime.getRuntime().exec(), java.io.IOException, Cannot run program, No such file or directory.

JSP file where issue occurred:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"

pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<%@ page import="java.io.BufferedReader,java.io.IOException,java.*,java.lang.Runtime,java.io.InputStreamReader;" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Insert title here</title>

</head>

<body>

StringBuffer objOutPut = new StringBuffer();

Process objProcess;

try {

String[] command = {"ls -tlr"};

objProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(

objProcess.getInputStream()));

String line = "";

while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {

System.out.println((line + "\n"));

objOutPut.append(line + "\n");

}

} catch (Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

<%=objOutPut %>

</textarea>

</body>

</html>

Issue:

java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "ls -tlr": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:494)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:612)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:485)
at org.apache.jsp.jsp.cmd_005foutput_jsp._jspService(cmd_005foutput_jsp.java:75)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:723)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:388)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:313)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:260)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:723)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:470)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:861)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:620)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:701)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory

Solutions:

Put the command in .sh file and call that file with actual path.

e.g