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How to Get User Related Informations in Java

In java, there are some methods that will help you to know some user related informations. Here also,

System.getProperty() 
method can give some informations about the user like:

User account name
User Working directory
User Home directory

To get the username of current user on the computer just call

System.getProperty("user.name")

It will return the current username as a string.


To get the working directory of current user on the computer call

System.getProperty("user.dir")

It will return the path of working directory of current user as a string.


To get the home directory (user's home folder) of current user on the computer call

System.getProperty("user.home")

It will return the path to home directory (folder) of current user as a string.