How to get folder path from file path with CMD

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I need path to the folder that contains cmd file  With  0 I can get file name  But how to get folder name   c  temp test cmd    test cmd  P S  My current directory    folder of the script

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In order to assign these to variables  be sure not to add spaces in front or after the equals sign    set filepath   dp1 set filename   nx1   Then you should have no issues

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This was put together with some edited example cmd   Echo off  Echo                                                          Echo    ZIP Folder Backup using 7Zip                          Echo    Usage  Source Folder  Destination Drive Letter        Echo    Source Folder will be Zipped to Destination Backups   Echo                                                          Echo off  set year  date  -4 4  set month  date  -10 2  set day  date  -7 2  set hour  time  -11 2  set hour  hour   0  set min  time  -8 2   SET  P src Source Folder to Backup   SET source  src    call  file name from path nam  src  SET  P destination Backup Drive Letter  set zipfilename  nam   year   month   day   hour  min  zip set dest   destination   Backups  zipfilename     set AppExePath   ProgramFiles x86   7-Zip 7z exe  if not exist  AppExePath  set AppExePath   ProgramFiles  7-Zip 7z exe   if not exist  AppExePath  goto notInstalled  echo Backing up  source  to  dest    AppExePath  a -r -tzip  dest   source   echo  source  backed up to  dest  is complete   TIMEOUT 5  exit    file name from path  lt resultVar gt   lt pathVar gt        set    1   nx2      exit  b      notInstalled  echo Can not find 7-Zip  please install it from  echo  http   7-zip org    end PAUSE

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The accepted answer is helpful  but it isn t immediately obvious how to retrieve a filename from a path if you are NOT using passed in values  I was able to work this out from this thread  but in case others aren t so lucky  here is how it is done    echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion enableextensions  set myPath C  Somewhere Somewhere SomeFile txt call  file name from path result  myPath  echo  result  goto  eof   file name from path  lt resultVar gt   lt pathVar gt        set    1   nx2      exit  b     eof endlocal   Now the  file name from path function can be used anywhere to retrieve the value  not just for passed in arguments  This can be extremely helpful if the arguments can be passed into the file in an indeterminate order or the path isn t passed into the file at all

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I had same problem in my loop where i wanted to extract zip files in the same directory and then delete the zip file  The problem was that 7z requires the output folder  so i had to obtain the folder path of each file  Here is my solution    FOR  F  usebackq tokens 1    i IN   DIR  S B   zip    DO     7z exe x   i -aoa -o  i           i was a full filename path and  ii    simply returns the parent folder    hope it helps

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For the folder name and drive  you can use   echo   dp0   You can get a lot more information using different modifiers     I         - expands  I removing any surrounding quotes       fI        - expands  I to a fully qualified path name   dI        - expands  I to a drive letter only   pI        - expands  I to a path only   nI        - expands  I to a file name only   xI        - expands  I to a file extension only   sI        - expanded path contains short names only   aI        - expands  I to file attributes of file   tI        - expands  I to date time of file   zI        - expands  I to size of file  The modifiers can be combined to get compound results    dpI       - expands  I to a drive letter and path only   nxI       - expands  I to a file name and extension only   fsI       - expands  I to a full path name with short names only   This is a copy paste from the  for     command on the prompt  Hope it helps   Related  Top 10 DOS Batch tips  Yes  DOS Batch     shows batchparams bat  link to source as a gist    C  Temp gt batchparams bat c  windows notepad exe   1            c  windows notepad exe   f1            c  WINDOWS NOTEPAD EXE   d1            c    p1             WINDOWS    n1            NOTEPAD   x1             EXE   s1            c  WINDOWS NOTEPAD EXE   a1            --a------   t1            08 25 2005 01 50 AM   z1            17920    PATHATH 1         dp1            c  WINDOWS    nx1            NOTEPAD EXE   dp PATH 1            c  WINDOWS    ftza1            --a------ 08 25 2005 01 50 AM 17920 c  WINDOWS NOTEPAD EXE

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In case anyone wants an alternative method     If it is the last subdirectory in the path  you can use this one-liner   cd  c  directory subdirectory filename exe         amp  amp  dir  ad  b  s   This would return the following   c  directory subdirectory   The      drops back to the previous directory   ad shows only directories  b is a bare format listing  s includes all subdirectories  This is used to get the full path of the directory to print

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In case the accepted answer by Wadih didn t work for you  try echo  CD

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