Directory not found while using java -classpath

Question

I'm using command

java -classpath  ${HADOOP_CLASSPATH} -d '/home/shravanth/Desktop/wordcount/classes' '/home/shravanth/Desktop/wordcount/WordCount.java'

when i run the above command i get the below error

/home/shravanth/Desktop/wordcount/classes not found

even though there is directory in /home/shravanth/Desktop/wordcount/classes

please help me.

Comments

Please let us know the complete details of the operation that you wish to perform.

kindly check the command and the classpath correctly and try to use \ (backslash) in place of / (forward slash)