When I run a jar file, say in /home/jars like such java -jar /home/jars/jarfile.jar, it seems to run in whatever directory I'm in.
How do I make it so java -jar /home/jars/jarfile.jar runs with /home/jars as the current working directory??
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A better question is 'why does the code need to know the user.dir?'. – Andrew Thompson Aug 14 '12 at 01:18
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The simple answer:
( cd /home/jars; java -jar /home/jars/jarfile.jar )
The analogy for most languages supporting an exec call, is the variant of exec that lets you specify a working directory.
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Read the link provided in answer. The bottom line portable solution is that the JVM must be launched into the desired directory. The link does provide other alternatives. – Richard Sitze Aug 14 '12 at 01:16