Getting the Current Working Directory in Java

Introduction
In this section, you will learn how to get the current working directory. The current working directory that means where your program run. This program shows the current directory name when your program run. Following methods are invoked for this purpose :
System.getProperty("user.dir");

This is the getProperty() method of the System class of the java.lang package returns the system properties according to the indicated argument. Here, the mentioned indicated argument is "user.dir" which indicates about the getting the current directory name.
Here is the code of the program :

import java.io.*;

 
public class  GetCurrentDir{
 
  private static void dirlist(String fname){
 
   File dir = new File(fname);
  
  System.out.println("Current Working Directory : "+ dir);
 
  }

 
 public static void main(String[] args){
 
    String currentdir = System.getProperty("user.dir");
 
    dirlist(currentdir);
 
 }
 
} 

Output of the program 

C:\nisha>javac GetCurrentDir.java C:\nisha>java GetCurrentDir Current Working Directory : C:\nisha C:\nisha>