Question

I have a jar file that gets arguments from commandline and I want to give parameter that contains environment variable. Something like below:

java -jar MyDev.jar -f %PROJECT_HOME%/src/test

But in above case program creates a directory named %PROJECT_HOME% however I want that PROJECT_HOME value in system is /home/jack path. And program should follow /home/jack/src/test not %PROJECT_HOME%/src/test path.

How can I do that ?

Answer 1

Are you running this in a Unix shell? If so, I suspect you just want:

java -jar MyDev.jar -f ${PROJECT_HOME}/src/test

Using % is the Windows way of specifying environment variables – which doesn’t appear to fit with a home directory of /home/jack…