What is the alternative for user s home directory on Windows command prompt

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I m trying to use the command prompt to move some files  I am used to the linux terminal where I use   to specify the my home directory I ve looked everywhere but I couldn t seem to find it for windows command prompt  Documents and Settings  user

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You re going to be disappointed   userprofile   You can use other terminals  though  Powershell  which I believe you can get on XP and later  and comes preinstalled with Win7   allows you to use   for home directory

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Just wrote a script to do this without too much typing while maintaining portability as setting   to be  userprofile  needs a manual setup on each Windows PC while cloning and setting the directory as part of the PATH is mechanical   https   github com yxliang01 Snippets blob master windows

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You can do almost the same yourself  Open Environment Variables and click  New  Button in the  User Variables for           Variable Name      Variable Value  Click  Browse Directory     button and choose a directory which you want   And after this  open cmd and type this   cd        It works

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You can use  systemdrive  homepath  environment variable to accomplish this   The two command variables when concatenated gives you the desired user s home directory path as below    Running echo  systemdrive  on command prompt gives   C   Running echo  homepath  on command prompt gives    Users  lt CurrentUserName gt     When used together it becomes   C  Users  lt CurrentUserName gt

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Use  systemdrive  homepath    systemdrive  gives drive character   Mostly C    and  homepath  gives user home directory    Users  lt USERNAME gt

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I just tried set    userprofile  and that works too if you want to keep using the same habit  You can then use     instead

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Simply     First Define Path   doskey   cd  homepath       Then Access

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Update - better version  18th July 2019     Final summary  even though I ve moved on to powershell for most windows console work anyway  but I decided to wrap this old cmd issue up  I had to get on a cmd console today  and the lack of this feature really struck me   This one finally works with spaces as well  where my previous answer would fail     In addition  this one now is also able to use   as a prefix for other home sub-folders too  and it swaps forward-slashes to back-slashes as well   So here it is   Step 1   Create these doskey macros  somewhere they get picked up every time cmd starts up   DOSKEY cd cdtilde bat     DOSKEY cd  chdir  D   USERPROFILE   DOSKEY cd   chdir      Step 2  Create the cdtilde bat file and put it somewhere in your PATH   echo off  set dirname    set dirname    set orig dirname        remove quotes - will re-attach later  set dirname  dirname      set dirname  dirname      set dirname  dirname         restore dirnames that contained only     if   dirname       set dirname  orig dirname         strip trailing slash  if longer than 3 if defined dirname if NOT   dirname  3              if   dirname  -1        set dirname   dirname  0 -1       if   dirname  -1        set dirname   dirname  0 -1      set dirname  dirname         if starts with    then replace   with userprofile path if  dirname  0 1           set dirname   USERPROFILE  dirname  1     set dirname  dirname         replace forward-slashes with back-slashes set dirname   dirname       set dirname  dirname      chdir  D   dirname     Tested fine with     cd    traditional habit  cd    shorthand version  cd    shorthand for going up    cd    eg  root of C   cd    config  eg  the  config folder under my home folder  cd  Program Files  eg   C  Program Files   cd C  Program Files  eg   C  Program Files   cd  Program Files  eg   C  Program Files   cd C  Program Files  eg   C  Program Files   cd  C  Program Files  eg   C  Program Files   cd  C  Program Files   eg   C  Program Files     Oh  also it allows lazy quoting  which I found useful  even when spaces are in the folder path names  since it wraps all of the arguments as if it was one long string    Which means just an initial quote also works  or completely without quotes also works   All other stuff below may be ignored now  it is left for historical reasons - so I dont make the same mistakes again      old update  19th Oct 2018  In case anyone else tried my approach  my original answer below didn t handle spaces  eg  the following failed    gt  cd  c  Program Files  Files           was unexpected at this time    I think there must be a way to solve that   Will post again if I can improve my answer    see above  I finally got it all working the way I wanted it to      My Original Answer  still needed work     7th Oct 2018  I was just trying to do it today  and I think I got it  this is what I think works well   First  some doskey macros   DOSKEY cd cdtilde bat     DOSKEY cd  chdir  D   USERPROFILE   DOSKEY cd   chdir      and then then a bat file in my path   cdtilde bat   echo off if    1                 chdir  D   USERPROFILE     else        chdir  D         All these seem to work fine     cd    traditional habit  cd    shorthand version  cd    shorthand for going up

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You can also do cd         as many times as there are folders that takes you to home directory  For example  if you are in cd  windows syatem32  then cd       takes you to the home  that is c

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If you want a shorter version of Jay s you could try       set usr  userprofile      cd  usr    Or you could even use  u  if you wanted to   It saves some keystrokes anyway

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You can  HOMEDRIVE  HOMEPATH  for the drive    docs settings username or  users username

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