Get name of running Jar or Exe

Question

What I need to do is get the name of the running jar/exe file (it would be an EXE on windows, jar on mac/linux). I have been searching around and I can\'t seem to find out h

Answer 1

Hope this can help you, I test the code and this return you the full path and the name.

Maybe you want to play a little more with the code and give me some feed back.

File(MyClass.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI());‌

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