I think you will have to look at using some Java classes to do this. The ProcessBuilder and Process classes will enable you to do this. Here's an example that calls the Windows "ping.exe" utility.
pingCmd = {'ping.exe', '-n', '10', 'www.google.com'};
processBuilder = java.lang.ProcessBuilder(pingCmd);
pingProcess = processBuilder.start();
% Set up a reader to read the output from the
% ping process
reader = ...
java.io.BufferedReader(...
java.io.InputStreamReader(...
pingProcess.getInputStream() ...
) ...
);
% Loop until there is some output
nextLine = char( reader.readLine );
while isempty(nextLine)
nextLine = char( reader.readLine );
end
% Then loop until there is no more output
while ~isempty(nextLine);
fprintf('PING output: %s\n', nextLine);
nextLine = char( reader.readLine );
end
% Get the exit value of the process
exitValue = pingProcess.exitValue
