NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:41:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:41:46 +0000 From: lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Getting path to jar passed on command line References: <98cfa140-0b4a-476a-bf1c-9cc2c39f22d8@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <98cfa140-0b4a-476a-bf1c-9cc2c39f22d8@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-yUYrkZAb5AYeHsNOoRiqQv7ikTbyRWRuulEifj7AF57vFKqJsBKhaASYT8YTQc38fNAmDjeRxXRS+wU!GCuR1f8aidOUmFLmkNImTmHrnPcD+6sGS6pFEo7wsXZ/vcFrh2MIF29/fRogWQOprAhVepUsZi4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1935 Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:23029 On 21/03/13 10:55, raphfrk@gmail.com wrote: > Is there a way to get the path of the jar file that was passed on the command line? > > java -jar > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/320542/how-to-get-the-path-of-a-running-jar-file Gives some good advice The solution String path = Test.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath(); String decodedPath = URLDecoder.decode(path, "UTF-8"); Works for me and gives me the path to the jar file containing the class that contains the above code. lipska -- Lipska the KatŠ: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun