Java File getPath() method with examples

1. Introduction

The getPath() method returns string representation of the file path. Returned string uses File.separator - system-dependent default name-separator character (in Windows \\ in Unix / character) to separate the file and directory names.

2. Method signature

public String getPath()

Parameters:

• method does not take any parameter

Returns

• String - path to the file or directory

3. Examples

3.1. The program that returns paths of given file and directory

package com.frontbackend.java.io.examples;

import java.io.File;

public class FrontBackend {

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        try {
            File file = new File("/tmp/frontbackend.txt");
            File dir = new File("/tmp/frontbackend");

            System.out.println(file.getPath()); // /tmp/frontbackend.txt

            System.out.println(dir.getPath()); // /tmp/frontbackend

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

The output:

/tmp/frontbackend.txt
/tmp/frontbackend

4. Conclusion

In this article, we presented File.getPath() method that returns the system-dependent path to the file or directory. The method used default system separator to separate the individual path components.