sed command not working from java

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cHam

I am trying to run a sed command from java without success. Here is my java code:

String[] cmd = {"sed", "-i", "'"+lineIndex+"s/"+line+"/"+currentBid+"/g'", "/data/jsp/items.xml"};
        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);

I also tried:

String[] cmd = {"/bin/sh","-c","sed", "-i", "'"+lineIndex+"s/"+line+"/"+currentBid+"/g'", "/data/jsp/items.xml"};
        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);

Thing is, if I print out the contents of the cmd String and run it in a terminal it does work. It's just not executing it from java for some reason. Te make this more clear, when I run the command directly from a terminal the file "items.xml" changes. When I run it from java the file does not change. I've verified that the command is correct as sown below.

Am I missing something?

The output from cmd is sed -i '21s/2/102/g' /data/jsp/items.xml

** EDIT

I made the following changes based on comments below. No change in output however.

String[] cmd = {"/bin/sh","-c","sed", "-i", "'"+lineIndex+"s/"+line+"/"+currentBid+"/g'", "/data/jsp/items.xml"};
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
p.waitFor();

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
String line2 = reader.readLine();
while (line2 != null) {
     line2 = reader.readLine();
}
reader.close();

L. Quastana

Try that :)

The advantage of this solution , it's more easier to debugging because you have the temporary file !

String lineIndex="21";
String line="2";
String currentBid="102";

File temp = File.createTempFile("temp-sh", ".sh"); 



FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(temp);
fw.write("#!/bin/bash\n");
fw.write("sed -i '"+lineIndex+"s/"+line+"/"+currentBid+"/g' data/jsp/items.xml\n");
fw.close();
System.out.println(". "+temp.getAbsolutePath());
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(". "+temp.getAbsolutePath());

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