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How to get the current working directory in Java

How to get the current working directory in Java

Abdul D.

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The Problem

I don’t know how to get the current working directory in Java.

The Solution

In Java, you can use the System.getProperty() method with the "user.dir" key to get the current working directory.

The System.getProperty() method can be used to retrieve various system properties, including the current working directory.

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public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String currentDirectory = System.getProperty("user.dir");
        System.out.println("Current working directory: " + currentDirectory);
    }
}

When you run this code, it prints:

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Current working directory: C:\Users\abdul\test-java\test

In this example, System.getProperty("user.dir") returns the current working directory as a String. The getProperty() method takes a key as an argument and returns the value associated with that key. In this case, the key is "user.dir", which represents the full path to the current directory.

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