How to run JUnit test cases from the command line

Question

I would like to run JUnit test cases from the command line. How can I do this?

Answer 1

The answer that @lzap gave is a good solution. However, I would like to add that you should add . to the class path, so that your current directory is not left out, resulting in your own classes to be left out. This has happened to me on some platforms. So an updated version for JUnit 4.x would be:

java -cp .:/usr/share/java/junit.jar org.junit.runner.JUnitCore [test class name]