Q4078 In C, I can use the system function to execute DOS-like commands e.g system("dir"); is there an equivalent in Java?

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Q4078 In C, I can use the system function to execute DOS-like commands e.g system("dir"); is there an equivalent in Java?

Please check out the "java.lang.Runtime" package. There you have methods like:

Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();
r.exec("c:\\yourfolder\\your.exe");