find path of current folder - cmd

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I use this script to find out the current folder with its  bat file   for  f   i in    0   do set curpath    dpi  echo   curpath     it doesn t work correctly  if the path contains spaces D  Scripts All Scripts -  retrieves only D  Scripts   if I place in the folder  whose path doesn t have spaces it retrieves the full path   How can I fix it

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Use This Code   echo off    Get the current directory  for  f  tokens   delims      A in   cd   do set CURRENT DIR   A  echo CURRENT DIR  A     echo this To confirm this code works fine

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2015-03-30  Edited - Missing information has been added  To retrieve the current directory you can use the dynamic  cd  variable that holds the current active directory  set  curpath  cd     This generates a value with a ending backslash for the root directory  and without a backslash for the rest of directories  You can force and ending backslash for any directory with  for   a in    cd     do set  curpath    fa    Or you can use another dynamic variable     CD    that will return the current active directory with an ending backslash   Also  remember the  cd  variable can have a value directly assigned  In this case  the value returned will not be the current directory  but the assigned value  You can prevent this with a reference to the current directory  for   a in        do set  curpath    fa    Up to windows XP  the    CD    variable has the same behaviour  It can be overwritten by the user  but at least from windows 7  i can t test it on Vista   any change to the    CD    is allowed but when the variable is read  the changed value is ignored and the correct current active directory is retrieved  note  the changed value is still visible using the set command    BUT all the previous codes will return the current active directory  not the directory where the batch file is stored    set  curpath   dp0    It will return the directory where the batch file is stored  with an ending backslash   BUT this will fail if in the batch file the shift command has been used  shift echo   dp0   As the arguments to the batch file has been shifted  the  0 reference to the current batch file is lost    To prevent this  you can retrieve the reference to the batch file before any shifting  or change the syntax to shift  1 to ensure the shift operation will start at the first argument  not affecting the reference to the batch file  If you can not use any of this options  you can retrieve the reference to the current batch file in a call to a subroutine   echo off     setlocal enableextensions      rem Destroy batch file reference     shift     echo batch folder is    dp0       rem Call the subroutine to get the batch folder      call  getBatchFolder batchFolder     echo batch folder is   batchFolder        exit  b   getBatchFolder returnVar     set    1   dp0   amp  exit  b   This approach can also be necessary if when invoked the batch file name is quoted and a full reference is not used  read here

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for  f  delims     i in    0   do set  curpath    dpi  echo   curpath     or  echo   cd     The double quotes are needed if the path contains any  amp  characters

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