Question

I’m complete Linux newbie, but still want to provide a simple way for Linux users to start my Java program.
Therefore I want to create a shellscript.

I can’t test my script so I’ll have to ask here if this is working correctly:

#!/bin/bash
java -cp "bin";"extres/junit.jar" data.ProgramOne
exit 0

Answer 1

Your mistake is in path delimiter. It is ; on Windows and : on Linux.
Moreover you should not wrap each classpath fragment with "". On unix you can escape spaces and other forbidden characters using \. So, I’d re-write the java execution line as:

java -cp bin:extres/junit.jar data.ProgramOne

This will run when you are executing script from your app directory where you have subdirectory bin and extres.