[Biojava-l] external processes

[Russ Kepler]

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 03:27 am, Andreas Dräger wrote:

> I just tried the ExecRunner class with a compliation of a Matlab skript.
> My parameters are Matlab matrices and vectors like
> [1 2 3; 4 5 6]
> and so on. In the ExecRunner class this 2x3 matrix will be destroyed by
> the StringTokenizer and my Matlab skript will be started with the arguments
> [1, 2, 3;, 4, 5, 6]
> which doesn't make any sense. 

As a workaround I simply put the command I wanted into a file in the local 
directory and execute that indirectly with "sh ./cmdfile".  It's harder to 
make it portable, but then executing something seldom is very portable.