Printing current path

When coding in Java I found myself having to print the current path of the executing JVM program in order to troubleshoot File not Found exceptions and other file-system related issues.

There are different ways to do that in Java:

1. Using System properties

You can use System class getting the user.dir property to achieve this:

System.out.println("Current path using System = " + System.getProperty("user.dir"));

2. using NIO Path

In Java 7 and beyond you can use NIO Path to get current path:

Path currentRelativePath = Paths.get("");
String s = currentRelativePath.toAbsolutePath().toString();
System.out.println("Current path using NIO is: " + s);