I'm finding that shell commands to use pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar won't work unless 
the full path is used. Example:

drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ ls /usr/local/bin/pdfb*
/usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar
drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar ExtractText 
Contact-Office-Letter.pdf 
Error: Unable to access jarfile pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar
drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ java -jar /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar 
ExtractText Contact-Office-Letter.pdf 
drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ 

Is there a shell variable that has to be set for Java to know where to look for 
jars?

Using Mac OS X 10.11.1.

TIA,

Jonathan

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