Get Current Working Directory in Java

public class GetCurrDirectory {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
         String path = System.getProperty("user.dir");
          System.out.println("Current Working Directory = " + path);
     }
} 

Current Working Directory = C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\currDir

For retrieving the directory which contains the java project, a system’s method called getProperty() is utilized with user.dir passed as the property to be retrieved in the method’s argument. This returns the path of the current directory.

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

Working Directory = C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\currDir

In this program, the path of the current directory is retrieved through the get() method of the Path class in Java. The get() method returns the location in the form of a relative path. In order to convert it into an absolute path, .toAbsolutePath() is used. Furthermore, since this method returns object type path, it is converted into String type using the toString() method.