What is the current directory in a batch file

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I want to create a few batch files to automate a program   My question is when I create the batch file  what is the current directory  Is it the directory where the file is located or is it the same directory that appears in the command prompt  or something else

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It is the directory from where you run the command to execute your batch file.

As mentioned in the above answers you can add the below command to your script to verify:

> set current_dir=%cd%
> echo %current_dir%

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Your bat file should be in the directory that the bat file is was in when you opened it  However if you want to put it into a different directory you can do so with cd  whatever directory

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In a batch file   cd  is the most commonly used command for the current directory  although you can set your own variable   set mypath  cd  echo  mypath   where  mypath  is the current directory that the batch file is sitting in    So say you were wanting to open Myprog exe  If it was in the same folder  you would use the command   start  mypath  Myprog exe   That would open Myprog from the current folder   The other option is to make a directory in C  called AutomatePrograms  Then  you transfer your files to that folder then you can open them using the following command   start     C  AutomatePrograms Myprog1 exe  start     C  AutomatePrograms Myprog2 exe  start     C  AutomatePrograms Myprog3 exe

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From within your batch file    cd  refers to the current working directory  variable    dp0 refers to the full path to the batch file s directory  static    dpnx0 and   f0 both refer to the full path to the batch directory and file name  static    See also  What does   dp0 mean  and how does it work

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CD       CD      C   There s also another dynamic variable    CD     which points to the current directory but alike  CD  it has a backslash at the end  This can be useful if you want to append files to the current directory  With   C      D   you can access the last accessed directory for the corresponding drive  If the variable is not defined you haven t accessed the drive on the current cmd session  And    APPDIR    expands to the executable that runs the current script a k a  cmd exe directory

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It usually is the directory from which the batch file is started  but if you start the batch file from a shortcut  a different starting directory could be given  Also  when you r in cmd  and your current directory is c  dir3  you can still start the batch file using c  dir1 dir2 batch bat in which case  the current directory will be c  dir3

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Say you were opening a file in your current directory  The command would be    start  cd  filename filetype   I hope I answered your question

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Just my 2 cents  The following command fails if called from batch file  Windows 7  placed on pendrive   xcopy  s  e  i  cd Ala C  KS Ala   But this does the job   xcopy  s  e  i   dp0Ala C  KS Ala

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It is the directory from where you start the batch file  E g  if your batch is in c  dir1 dir2 and you do cd c  dir3  then run the batch  the current directory will be c  dir3

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