When I run a jar file, say in /home/jars like such java -jar /home/jars/jarfile.jar, it seems to run in whatever directory I’m in.
How do I make it so java -jar /home/jars/jarfile.jar runs with /home/jars as the current working directory??
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The simple answer:
See also this response.
The analogy for most languages supporting an
execcall, is the variant ofexecthat lets you specify a working directory.See this for simple PHP solution.