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Shell

The Shell class is a wrapper for ShellStream that aims at more regular shell tasks. This class works synchronously and makes general shell tasks more easy than ShellStream.

Example

Shell shell = new Shell();
Command command = shell.execute("some command", 0);

if (command.getResultSuccess()) {
    // Handle command output
}

shell.destroy();

The Shell class does not really deal with strings, but instead with a Command class that acts as both input and output container. But it has convenient methods that automaticaly creates a Command with the parsed string and populates it with shell output.

Example: Using Command class

Shell shell = new Shell();
Command command = new Command("some command", 0);

shell.execute(command);

if (command.getResultSuccess()) {
    // Handle command output
}

shell.destroy();

As mentioned above, the Shell class is a wrapper for ShellStream, which means that you can reuse any existing connections with Shell.

Example: Re-use ShellStream

ShellStream stream = new ShellStream();
Shell shell = new Shell(stream);  // Add existing ShellStream
Command command = new Command("some command", 0);

shell.execute(command);

if (command.getResultSuccess()) {
    // Handle command output
}

shell.close();  // Do not destroy

Note the last line compared to the other examples. We replaced destroy() with close(). The first method will not only close the Shell class, but also destroy the wrapped ShellStream. If we want to keep use our connection for other things, we can instead use close() which will only cleanup the Shell class, but not touch the ShellStream within.