-cp on linux | how do I include additional jar files?

[Harold Lime]

Hi,

I've got the following running fine one a Windows machine:

java -cp bin;./lib/commons-lang-2.5.jar;./lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar sandbox.LegionLauncher
PAUSE

But the following does not work in Linux.

#!/bin/bash
java -cp bin;./lib/commons-lang-2.5.jar;./lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar sandbox.LegionLauncher
read -n1 -r -p "Press any key to continue..."

I'm fairly new to Linux so I've probably missed something simple.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing?

[Jesper de Jong]

On Linux you must use : (colon) instead of ; (semi-colon) to separate entries on a path - because ; has a different meaning in the shell on Linux. So it should be:

java -cp bin:./lib/commons-lang-2.5.jar:./lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar sandbox.LegionLauncher

[Harold Lime]

Brilliant! I knew would be simple.

Thanks.

[Tim Holloway]

Do be careful with those semicolons! In Linux/Unix, you use colons to delimit commands just like Java code does. Windows had to use semicolons because they use colons as part of their file path naming scheme.