Get Current Directory

In this Tutorial we want to describe you a code that helps you in understanding Get Current Directory. For this we have a class name CurrentDir, Inside the main method we create an instance file1 and file2 of file class by using new operator.

Get Current Directory

In this Tutorial we want to describe you a code that helps you in understanding Get Current Directory. For this we have a class name CurrentDir, Inside the main method we create an instance file1 and file2 of file class by using new operator.

Get Current Directory

Get Current Directory

     

In this Tutorial we want to describe you a code that helps you in understanding Get Current Directory. For this we have a class name CurrentDir, Inside the main method we create an instance file1 and file2 of file class by using new operator. The try block includes  println method used to print the current directory and parent directory using following methods-

get Canonical Path( ) This method return the path of the directory.

The println is used to print the Current  and Parent dir.If there is an exception in try block ,the catch block handle the exception and print it on the command prompt.

Here is the video tutorial of "How to get current directory in Java?":

Current Dir.java
import java.io.*;

public class CurrentDir {

  public static void main(String args[]) {

  File file1 = new File(".");
  File file2 = new File("..");
 try {
   System.out.println("Current dir : " + file1.getCanonicalPath());
   System.out.println("Parent  dir : " + file2.getCanonicalPath());
  catch (Exception e) {
  System.out.println(e);
  }
  }
}

Output

Current dir : C:\Documents and Settings
\Administrator\My Documents\NetBeansProjects\GetExample


Parent  dir : C:\Documents and Settings
\Administrator\My Documents\NetBeansProjects
 

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