Thread: Can this possibly done?

Hello,

Say you have a program called "whatever.exe". Basically, what this program does is to run batch commands, "dir" and "cd".
if you run this "whatever.exe", the output will be something like...
------
dir...
blahblah. list of directories..
cd blahblah..
------

you want to run this "whatever.exe" from java application..
So like..

Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process pr = rt.exec("whatever.exe");
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pr.getInputStream()));
String line = null;
while( (line = input.readLine() ) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}

cool...done..you are going to see the output result for the whatever.exe at your console...
However, the thing I want is that..somehow..I want to intercept the cd command and change the parameter on the fly...
For example, say, this whatever.exe runs "cd C:\ABCD" internally, but somehow I want to change this cd command like "cd C:\EFGH" to run by my Java application..
Well..obviously, you don't have a source code for "whatever.exe".

I was thinking if we somehow..somehow...could manipulate some stream...this could be done....but I really don't think though..
Anyway, any idea would be appreciated.

Thanks,

1. Change whatever.exe to accept command args, and then have the Java wrapper do the same, constructing a command line that includes those args.

2. Replace whatever.exe with a batch file that uses positional parameters and pass those as arguments via the Java wrapper.

None of the process streams are related to how the process is executed. They represent the STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR of the process itself. So, if whatever.exe listened to its STDIN in a loop waiting for a "command" that included your arguments, you could do this as a variant on (1). You see this a lot when implementing a native IPC arrangement that doesn't rely on platform specific IPC. Likely overkill for this purpose.