Launch terminal on OS X and run commands using Java

Question

I am working on a JavaFX application and I cannot figure out how to write a ssh command on a launched terminal on iOS.

try {
    Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app /bin/bash");
    int launched = process.waitFor();
    BufferedWriter terminal = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(process.getOutputStream()));
    System.out.println(launched);
    terminal.write("/usr/bin/ssh -o CheckHostIP=no -o TCPKeepAlive=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ServerAliveInterval=120 -o ServerAliveCountMax=100 -i ~/.aws/.ec2/dublin.pem ubuntu@"
        + selectedRow.get(publicDnsNameIndex).getValue() + "\n");
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

launched is always 0, so I can not write to the process anymore.

The full code is here https://github.com/gadelkareem/aws-client/blob/dev/src/main/java/com/gadelkareem/awsclient/application/Controller.java

Possible duplicate of [this](http://stackoverflow.com/q/19835305/230513). It's not clear what you are trying to do. — trashgod, Dec 29 '15 at 10:07
yes it could be the solution, I will give it a try tonight..thank you! — Gadelkareem, Dec 29 '15 at 10:17

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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As this suggested. I must use /usr/bin/osascript

try {
    final ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder("/usr/bin/osascript",
            "-e", "tell app \"Terminal\"",
            "-e", "set currentTab to do script " +
            "(\"/usr/bin/ssh -o CheckHostIP=no -o TCPKeepAlive=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ServerAliveInterval=120 -o ServerAliveCountMax=100 -i ~/.aws/.ec2/dublin.pem ubuntu@" +
            selectedRow.get(publicDnsNameIndex).getValue() + "\")",
            "-e", "end tell");
    final Process process = processBuilder.start();
    process.waitFor();

} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Dec 29 '15 at 19:58

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You can also do this in the background of a `SwingWorker`, for [example](http://stackoverflow.com/a/20603012/230513). – trashgod Dec 30 '15 at 02:15
I need to prompt the terminal for the user to ssh to the EC2 – Gadelkareem Dec 30 '15 at 09:25

Launch terminal on OS X and run commands using Java

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