In this post, we will see how to get current working directory in java.
There are four ways to do it.
When I ran above program, I got below output:
When I ran above program, I got below output:
There are four ways to do it.
Table of Contents
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("--------------"); } } |
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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("--------------"); } } |
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Current working directory is : /Users/Arpit/workspaceBlogFeb/GetCurrentWorkingDir/. |
Using Paths.get() (Java 7+)
You can use Paths.get("") method get current working directory in java.
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package org.arpit.java2blog; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; /* * @Author Arpit Mandliya */ public class getCurretWorkingDirectoryMain { public static void main(String[] args) { String currentWorkingDirectory; System.out.println("--------------"); Path currentRelativePath = Paths.get(""); String s = currentRelativePath.toAbsolutePath().toString(); currentWorkingDirectory=s.toString(); 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 FileSystems.getDefault() (Java 7+)
You can use FileSystem.getDefault() method get current working directory in java.
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package org.arpit.java2blog; import java.nio.file.FileSystems; import java.nio.file.Path; /* * @Author Arpit Mandliya */ public class getCurretWorkingDirectoryMain { public static void main(String[] args) { String currentWorkingDirectory; System.out.println("--------------"); Path path = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("").toAbsolutePath(); currentWorkingDirectory=path.toString(); 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/ |
That’s all about how to get current working directory in java.
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