Can a Java program know its current directory?

Question

Is it possible for a Java application to know its own current directory. I mean the result of pwd .

For example, when doing

 ~/Documents/workspace/Project/bin $ java com/foo/bar/baz/Runner files/text1.txt program should know ~/Documents/workspace/Project/bin ~/Documents/workspace/Project $ java com/foo/bar/baz/Runner files/text1.txt program should know ~/Documents/workspace/Project 

Answer 1

Perhaps this helps:

 File cwd = new File("."); 

Answer 2

You can use System.getProperty("user.dir") .

Answer 3

This is called the working directory. You can get it with the following instruction:

 System.getProperty("user.dir");