How to give unix file path in java

I specified log4j. James Z 12k 10 10 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 43 43 bronze badges. Corey Adler Shirish Coolkarni Shirish Coolkarni 8 8 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. RollingFileAppender log4j. PatternLayout log4j. This will is the code for properties file.

Because I had tried using similar stuff with XML file, but did not work. Log4j entry - File to log to and log format log4j. Thiyag Mohan Thiyag Mohan 1 1 1 bronze badge. Moreaki 4 4 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. This is for my configuration file. This will work, no issues with it.

At moment, I have the following piece of code "System. So what does that could help for? Since you are using unix you can use a path like this. But OP wants to use an environment variable to control the path.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. This differs with the way you execute the JAR. This returns the root path of the JAR file i. If you place your resource relative to the classpath root, you can access it as follows:.

This way, the file will be searched in the user. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to specify filepath in java? Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 2 months ago.

Active 12 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Yatendra Yatendra The title should perhaps be "How to find where my program is installed in Java? Thx for the downvote — Juri. Search Forums. Show Threads. Show Posts. How to get the path of a file in UNIX?

Registered User. Join Date: Sep Hi Frindz, I want to get the entire path of a file. I am in root directory and i know the file name, However dont know the path where it is. Please tell me the command to get the entire path for the file? Thanks in advance, Rashmy. Join Date: Dec Try Code :. Code :.

Junaid Subhani. Join Date: Aug Join Date: Jan Related post: stackoverflow. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. You might want to clarify how to acquire a FileSystem instance — apetranzilla.

Java is platform independent. The file path-es and some system calls are not. As long as the path is relative, you can use File. If that's not viable for your app, then you can let the user specify it in a system property: java Tamas Rev Tamas Rev 6, 4 4 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 48 48 bronze badges.

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