commandLine and request of arguments

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1

Hello,

I’m trying to execute commands on linux command line through gradle,

I simply want to add a password to a zip. I wrote this task:

task encodeZip(type: Exec) {
	workingDir path_target //variable in my script
	commandLine "zipcloak", "zip_name.zip"
	commandLine "psw"
	commandLine "psw"
}

The command zipcloak asks twice to enter the password, but the script returns this error:

A problem occurred starting process 'command 'psw' '

Any idea about how to do this? Thanks

2

The Exec task will only execute a single command. You are setting commandLine 3 times which is having the effect of overriding the first two values and executing the third. I’m not familiar with zipCloak but perhaps there’s the option to pass the username/password as command line arguments?

If not, you still won’t execute 3 commands (you’ll execute one command followed by values on the inputStream). To simulate this you’ll likely need to set the inputSream property

3

Could you provide an example? I’m trying to pass the password with

setStandardInput (“psw”)

but i receive an error.

zipcloak doen’t accept the psw as argument, the only way is really to write it when requested.

Thanks for you help

4

I’m not 100% sure how zipCloak reads from the InputStream but likely something like

ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(bytes)
out.println("psw")
out.println("psw")
out.flush()

standardInput = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes.toByteArray())
5

Now the zipcloak command is executed but I’m not still able to send the password to the console

6

Can you paste the whole task definition?

7

This is the task

task encodeZip() {
	workingDir path_target_workspace
	commandLine "zipcloak", "file.zip"
	ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
	PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(bytes)
	out.println("psw")
	out.flush()
	ByteArrayInputStream input = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes.toByteArray())
	setStandardInput(input)
}
8

I think you’ll need to call out.println("psw") twice

9

I tried but the input is not sent to the consolle

10

It’s not going to go to the console… it’s going to the InputStream of the zipcloak process
@see ProcessBuilder.redirectInput(ProcessBuilder.Redirect)

11

But the consolle still waits for inputs, if I don’t put anything the script doesn’t go to the end

12

Hmm… this thread seems to suggest the input stream should be initialized in a doFirst. Eg:

task encodeZip(type: Exec) {
   workingDir path_target_workspace
   commandLine "zipcloak", "file.zip"

   doFirst {
      ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
      PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(bytes)
      out.println("psw")
      out.println("psw")
      out.flush()
      standardInput = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes.toByteArray())
   }
}
13

Still not working

I definitely create a zip with passowrd, instead of adding it to an existing one

task encodeZip(type: Exec) {
	workingDir path_target_workspace
	commandLine "zip", "-P", package_password, "-r", packageName + ".zip", "doc", "plugin", packageName + ".tar"
}

After the parameter packageName.zip there are all the files I want to add to the zip, in this case the folders “doc”, “plugin” and a tar

This WORKS!

In any case, thank you very much for your support :slight_smile: