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Rollerball
Rollerball

Reputation: 13108

Why System.getProperty("user.name"); does not work from command line?

The following line of code works fine with Eclipse

Path file = Paths.get(System.getProperty("user.home"),"Desktop","Peppe.txt");

however when I try to run it from a terminal it gives me back this error message

java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /root/Desktop/Peppe.txt

In theory System.getProperty("user.name") should return a platform indipendent bit of root path? isn't it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1515

Answers (1)

Peter Lawrey
Peter Lawrey

Reputation: 533530

You are running the code as root and it's quite likely that root doesn't have a Desktop.

I wouldn't assume the code is not behaving correctly, instead I would assume you need to understand what it means.

Upvotes: 1

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