What is FileUtils.getUserDirectoryPath() in Java?

The getUserDirectoryPath() method

getUserDirectoryPath() is a staticthe methods in Java that can be called without creating an object of the class. method of the FileUtils that is used to return the path to the user’s home directory. The path to the user’s home directory is stored in the system property variable user.home.

How to import FileUtils

The definition of FileUtils can be found in the Apache Commons IO package, which we can add to the Maven project by adding the following dependency to the pom.xml file:

<dependency>
            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
            <version>2.11.0</version>
</dependency>

For other versions of the commons-io package, refer to the Maven Repository.

You can import the FileUtils class as follows:

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

Syntax

public static String getUserDirectoryPath()

Parameters

The method has no parameters.

Return value

This method returns the path to the user’s home directory.

Code

In the code above, we print the user’s home directory path obtained from the method FileUtils.getUserDirectoryPath().

Output

The output of the code will be as follows:

The path to the user's home directory is /Users/educative