How can I run an app, when using the full path?
Just at the dot at the beggining of the multilevel path : ./my/path/to/app/myapp Dot refers to the current dir. Or you can use absolute path from the root of your disk without the dot like /Users/Me/my/path/to/app/myapp Or if it is a jar file (you mentioned that it is Java app) you can start it as java -jar /my/path/to/app/myapp