Example 1: Get current working directory

1. public class CurrDirectory {
3. public static void main(String[] args) {
5. String path = System.getProperty("user.dir");
7. System.out.println("Working Directory = " + path);
9. }
10. }

When you run the program, the output will be:

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 current working directory using Path

1. import java.nio.file.Paths;
3. public class CurrDirectory {
5. public static void main(String[] args) {
7. String path = Paths.get("").toAbsolutePath().toString();
8. System.out.println("Working Directory = " + path);
10. }
11. }

When you run the program, the output will be:

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 absolute path using toAbsolutePath(). Since, it returns a Path object, we need to change it to a string using toString() method.