In this post, we will see how to get current working directory in java.
There are two ways to do it.
There are two ways to do it.
- Using property user.dir
- Using getAbsolutePath()
Using property user.dir
We can use System.getProperty(“user.dir”) to get current working directory path.
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package org.arpit.java2blog; /* * @Author Arpit Mandliya */ public class getCurretWorkingDirectoryMain { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("--------------"); String currentWorkingDirectory; currentWorkingDirectory = System.getProperty("user.dir"); System.out.println("Current working directory is : "+currentWorkingDirectory); System.out.println("--------------"); } } |
When I ran above program, I got below output:
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Current working directory is : /Users/Arpit/workspaceBlogFeb/GetCurrentWorkingDir |
Using getAbsolutePath()
We can use file.getAbos
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package org.arpit.java2blog; import java.io.File; /* * @Author Arpit Mandliya */ public class getCurretWorkingDirectoryMain { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("--------------"); String currentWorkingDirectory=""; // . denotes current working directory File file=new File("."); currentWorkingDirectory=file.getAbsolutePath(); System.out.println("Current working directory is : "+currentWorkingDirectory); System.out.println("--------------"); } } |
When I ran above program, I got below output:
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Current working directory is : /Users/Arpit/workspaceBlogFeb/GetCurrentWorkingDir/. |
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