Example 1: Get current working directory
public class CurrDirectory {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String path = System.getProperty("user.dir");
System.out.println("Working Directory = " + path);
}
}
Output
Working Directory = C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\currDir
In the above program, we used System's getProperty() method to get the user.dir property of the program. This returns the directory which contains our Java project.
Example 2: Get the current working directory using Path
import java.nio.file.Paths;
public class CurrDirectory {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String path = Paths.get("").toAbsolutePath().toString();
System.out.println("Working Directory = " + path);
}
}
Output
Working Directory = C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\currDir
In the above program, we used Path's get() method to get the current path of our program. This returns a relative path to the working directory.
We then change the relative path to an absolute path using toAbsolutePath(). Since it returns a Path object, we need to change it to a string using toString() method.