Adding JAR to CLASSPATH in Mac OS

Question

I am trying to set up the CLASSPATH for Java under Mac OS.

Specifically I am trying to add a couple of JAR archives to it.

If I do it like:

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Answer 1

You must set the jars on the classpath individually. There are ways around this though. One that I use is starting the java app with a shell script that contains something like this:

 cd $JAR_DIR
 jars=($(ls *.jar))
 JAR_PATH=""
 dir=$(pwd)
 for i in "${jars[@]}"; do
    JAR_PATH="${JAR_PATH}:$dir/$i"
 done
 CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAR_PATH

This will work.