How to know system folder path

[ivvgangadhar]

Hi,

I have some folder name in my system(eg:-e://xxx).Can i know that folder is located in E Drive through java Code.

[masijade]

Take a look at the API docs for File.

[DevzAbhi]

import java.io.*;

public class DirListing1 {

/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

Boolean flag=false;
File f =new File("e:/");
String [] s=f.list();
for(int index =0 ; index<s.length;index++){
if(s[index].equals("e:/xxx")){

flag=true;

}

System.out.println(s[index]);


}



}

}

[fishtoprecords]

@DevzAbhi's code fragment starts with the explicit statement to look on E:

If the real question is: I have a directory somewhere, and its called XXX, how do I find it?

This is harder, because the concept of an E: drive is Windows specific,
You could, altho its crude, just run through a loop of all drive letters, A through Z, but with UNC names, that isn't guarenteed to be complete

[Eranga]

Hi,

I have some folder name in my system(eg:-e://xxx).Can i know that folder is located in E Drive through java Code.

I'm not clear what you are asking here. Are you want to find that a specific folder(as you said xxx) is located on drive E or not? So you have to search recursively all drives in the system.

But as fishtoprecords says, it's Widows specific, in UNC systems you don't have drive letters to find.

[masijade]

I said to look at File, because, if you do getParentFile() until it returns null, the "File" for which it returned null is the root for the File you started with.

[Eranga]

I said to look at File, because, if you do getParentFile() until it returns null, the "File" for which it returned null is the root for the File you started with.

Yes, that's a nice approach. How should I forget that getParentFile() :( . But still I'm not clear what our thread starter is looking.