Windows shell command to get the full path to the current directory

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Is there a Windows command line command that I can use to get the full path to the current working directory   Also  how can I store this path inside a variable used in a batch file

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This has always worked for me   SET CurrentDir    dp0   ECHO The current file path this bat file is executing in is the following   ECHO  CurrentDir   Pause

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Create a  bat file under System32  let us name it copypath bat the command to copy current path could be   echo  cd    clip   Explanation    cd  will give you current path  CLIP  Description      Redirects output of command line tools to the Windows clipboard      This text output can then be pasted into other programs   Parameter List                          Displays this help message   Examples      DIR   CLIP          Places a copy of the current directory                         listing into the Windows clipboard       CLIP  lt  README TXT   Places a copy of the text from readme txt                         on to the Windows clipboard    Now copyclip is available from everywhere

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For Windows we can use  cd  and for Linux   pwd  command is there

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echo off for  f  usebackq tokens      x in   chdir   do set var   x echo The currenct directory is   var    But  of course  gmaran23 s answer is the much easier one

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As one of the possible codes      echo off     for  f  usebackq tokens   delims      x in   chdir   do set var  var    x     echo The current directory is    var  1

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For Windows  cd by itself will show you the current working directory   For UNIX and workalike systems  pwd will perform the same task   You can also use the  PWD shell variable under some shells   I am not sure if Windows supports getting the current working directory via a shell variable or not

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Based on the follow up question  store the data in a variable  in the comments to the chdir post I m betting he wants to store the current path to restore it after changeing directories   The original user should look at  pushd   which changes directory and pushes the current one onto a stack that can be restored with a  popd   On any modern Windows cmd shell that is the way to go when making batch files   If you really need to grab the current path then modern cmd shells also have a  CD  variable that you can easily stuff away in another variable for reference

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On Unix   pwd

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In a Windows command prompt  chdir or cd will print the full path of the current working directory in the console   If we want to copy the path then we can use  cd   clip

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On Windows   CHDIR    Displays the name of or changes the current directory   In Linux   PWD      Displays the name of current directory

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You can set a batch environment variable as follows   SET var  cd  ECHO  var    sample screenshot from a Windows 7 x64 cmd exe     Update  if you do a SET var    cd  instead of SET var  cd    below is what happens  Thanks to jeb     Capturing the current directory from a batch file

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Quote the Windows help for the set command  set        If Command Extensions are enabled  then there are several dynamic environment variables that can be expanded but which don t show up in the list of variables displayed by SET   These variable values are computed dynamically each time the value of the variable is expanded  If the user explicitly defines a variable with one of these names  then that definition will override the dynamic one described below    CD  - expands to the current directory string    DATE  - expands to current date using same format as DATE command    TIME  - expands to current time using same format as TIME command    RANDOM  - expands to a random decimal number between 0 and 32767    ERRORLEVEL  - expands to the current ERRORLEVEL value   CMDEXTVERSION  - expands to the current Command Processor Extensions     version number    CMDCMDLINE  - expands to the original command line that invoked the     Command Processor    Note the  CD  - expands to the current directory string  part

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On Windows  type cd for the working current path   On Linux  pwd for the current working path

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Use cd with no arguments if you re using the shell directly  or  cd  if you want to use it in a batch file  it behaves like an environment variable

[windows] Windows shell command to get the full path to the current directory?

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