Command line cmd bat script how to get directory of running script

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How can you get the directory of the script that was run and use it within the  cmd file

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for  F  eol  delims      d in   CD   do set curdir   d  pushd  curdir    Source

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Raymond Chen has a few ideas      https   devblogs microsoft com oldnewthing 20050128-00  p 36573   Quoted here in full because MSDN archives tend to be somewhat unreliable      The easy way is to use the  CD  pseudo-variable  It expands to the   current working directory       set OLDDIR  CD       do stuff      chdir  d  OLDDIR   amp rem restore current directory         Of course  directory save restore could more easily have   been done with pushd popd  but that s not the point here        The  CD  trick is handy even from the command line  For example  I   often find myself in a directory where there s a file that I want to   operate on but    oh  I need to chdir to some other directory in order   to perform that operation       set    CD  curfile txt   cd     some other directory       somecommand args     args         I like to use     as my scratch environment variable        Type SET    to see the other pseudo-variables provided by the command   processor    Also the comments in the article are well worth scanning for example this one  via the WayBack Machine  since comments are gone from older articles       http   blogs msdn com oldnewthing archive 2005 01 28 362565 aspx 362741   This covers the use of   dp0      If you want to know where the batch file lives    dp0        0 is the name of the batch file   dp gives you the drive and path of   the specified argument

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This is equivalent to the path of the script    dp0  This uses the batch parameter extension syntax  Parameter 0 is always the script itself  If your script is stored at C  example script bat  then   dp0 evaluates to C  example   ss64 com has more information about the parameter extension syntax  Here is the relevant excerpt   You can get the value of any parameter using a   followed by it s numerical position on the command line        When a parameter is used to supply a filename then the following extended syntax can be applied          d1 Expand  1 to a Drive letter only - C          p1 Expand  1 to a Path only e g   utils  this includes a trailing   which may be interpreted as an escape character by some commands        The modifiers above can be combined    dp1 Expand  1 to a drive letter and path only       You can get the pathname of the batch script itself with  0  parameter extensions can be applied to this so   dp0 will return the Drive and Path to the batch script e g  W  scripts

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