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Thread: How to manually put data into an InputStream?

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    Question How to manually put data into an InputStream?

    Hi all, I am new to programming in regards to I/O, channels, SSH, etc... and I'm finding it quite difficult to find a solution to my problem.
    At the moment I am trying to transform the Shell.java program from the JCraft JSch examples; http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/examples/Shell.java.html

    The way in which I am trying to transform it is by instead of having the character input go into the channel automatically from the keyboard (refer to line 77 in Shell.java), I just want to pro-grammatically insert characters in to the channel at my discretion, so for example I have a string called unixCommand that I want to insert into the channel, and I don't want there to be any other way of inserting into the channel such as the standard input stream, so for example I'd have the statement <insert unixCommand to UNIX box at other side of channel> inserted somewhere after line 100 in Shell.java.

    I was thinking that maybe I have to use some other InputStream object at line 77 when setting the channels input stream instead of System.in, but I am not sure how to do this (but really I'm not sure if I'm even on the right tracks?). I believe all this confusion may be down to a misunderstanding with the general concepts involved with channels and I/O and if so would be very grateful if anyone could help rectify this misunderstanding of mine.

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    Default Re: How to manually put data into an InputStream?

    The way in which I am trying to transform it is by instead of having the character input go into the channel automatically from the keyboard (refer to line 77 in Shell.java), I just want to pro-grammatically insert characters in to the channel at my discretion, so for example I have a string called unixCommand that I want to insert into the channel, and I don't want there to be any other way of inserting into the channel such as the standard input stream, so for example I'd have the statement <insert unixCommand to UNIX box at other side of channel> inserted somewhere after line 100 in Shell.java.
    Perhaps I misunderstand, but an InputStream is for reading data...if you wish to call a command on the remote ssh box, use the OutputStream to write out to the ssh connection Also, have a look at the Exec.java example for calling exec commands.

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    Default Re: How to manually put data into an InputStream?

    Quote Originally Posted by copeg View Post
    Perhaps I misunderstand, but an InputStream is for reading data...if you wish to call a command on the remote ssh box, use the OutputStream to write out to the ssh connection Also, have a look at the Exec.java example for calling exec commands.

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    yeah sorry about that, I'll make sure I go back to all cross posts and post in what worked for me when I find the answer (and stick to 1 forum afterwards), however after looking through more examples of I/O, your reply does make most sense to me at the moment, and as I thought it is a misunderstanding with the fundamental concepts on my part, I don't think you are misunderstanding anything. I'll let you know tomorrow after work how it goes

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