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

  File(MyClass.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI().g‌​etPath());  

Should give you the jar.

as for the exe, as I'm assuming you're using some sort of wrapper, you'll need to know the name of the exe before it's run. Then you could use something like :

   Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec
    (System.getenv("windir") +"\\system32\\"+"tasklist.exe");