Starting Eclipse w/ Specific Workspace

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Wilco picture Wilco · Oct 16, 2008 · Viewed 77.5k times · Source

Is there a way to start an instance of eclipse, passing it some sort of parameter telling it to use a specific workspace?

The problem I'm trying to solve is that I have a workspace for work projects and one for personal projects. I'd like to be able to tie these to workspaces to separate shortcuts that I could launch independently.

Answer

Matt H picture Matt H · Oct 16, 2008

From http://help.eclipse.org/help21/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/running_eclipse.htm:

Use the following command-line argument:

-data your_workspace_location

For example, 

-data c:\users\robert\myworkspace

you can also use UNIX-style relative path names such as

-data ../workspace

even under Windows, in case something doesnt like colons or backslashes in parameters, like Jumplist Launcher

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