Get current batchfile directory

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Firstly  I saw this topic but I couldn t understand that   Question    There is a batch file in D  path to file bat with following content    echo  cd  pause   Output is    C     It must be D  path to  What am I doing wrong

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Here s what I use at the top of all my batch files  I just copy paste from my template folder    echo off    --HAS ENDING BACKSLASH set batdir   dp0    --MISSING ENDING BACKSLASH    set batdir  CD  pushd   batdir     Setting current batch file s path to  batdir  allows you to call it in subsequent stmts in current batch file  regardless of where this batch file changes to  Using PUSHD allows you to use POPD to quickly set this batch file s path to original  batdir   Remember  if using  batdir ExtraDir or  batdir  ExtraDir  depending on which version used above  ending backslash or not  you will need to enclose the entire string in double quotes if path has spaces  i e    batdir ExtraDir    You can always use PUSHD   dp0   https     ss64 com  nt  syntax-args  html  has more on      parameters   Note that using      at beginning of a line makes it a comment line  More importantly  using    allows you to include redirectors  pipes  special chars  i e   lt      etc  in that comment      ORIG STMT WAS  dir       find  v  1917   gt  outfile txt   Of course  Powershell does this and lots more

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Within your  bat file   set mypath  cd    You can now use the variable  mypath  to reference the file path to the  bat file  To verify the path is correct    echo  mypath    For example  a file called DIR bat with the following contents  set mypath  cd   echo  mypath  Pause   run from the directory g  test bat will echo that path in the DOS command window

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Very simple   setlocal cd  d   dp0 File exe

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System read-only variable  CD  keeps the path of the caller of the batch  not the batch file location   You can get the name of the batch script itself as typed by the user with  0  e g  scripts mybatch bat   Parameter extensions can be applied to this so   dp0 will return the Drive and Path to the batch script  e g  W  scripts   and   f0 will return the full pathname  e g  W  scripts mybatch cmd    You can refer to other files in the same folder as the batch script by using this syntax   CALL  0    SecondBatch cmd   This can even be used in a subroutine  Echo  0 will give the call label but  echo    nx0  will give you the filename of the batch script    When the  0 variable is expanded  the result is enclosed in quotation marks    More on batch parameters

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