How to include all the jars present at a particular directory in the CLASSPATH in one go? [duplicate]

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I have around hundreds of jars at a particular directory which my application uses. So I thought its hard to add each jars one by one to the classpath. So is there any command or any way so that i can add all the jars at one go. some *.jar should add all the jars.

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Yes, you can use a wildcard, as of Java6. See the section on "Understanding class path wildcards"

Class path entries can contain the basename wildcard character *, which is considered equivalent to specifying a list of all the files in the directory with the extension .jar or .JAR. For example, the class path entry foo/* specifies all JAR files in the directory named foo. A classpath entry consisting simply of * expands to a list of all the jar files in the current directory.

Prior to Java 6, you had to specify them all individually.