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Hien Nguyen
Hien Nguyen

Reputation: 764

How to get the path of a file in text

I have a variable 

set i = %1

%1 is d:\work\temp_h.txt

I want to get a path "d:\work". If I use the below code I can get the name of path

%%~nxi

%%~nxi= temp_h.txt. How can I get the path of i ? ( like that d:\work )

Upvotes: 1

Views: 92

Answers (2)

Adarsh
Adarsh

Reputation: 3641

%~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

These are some of the modifiers that can be used. In your case you can use %~dp1

Upvotes: 1

user93353
user93353

Reputation: 14039

set subdir=%~dp1
echo %subdir%

This will give you the directory part of whatever is there in %1 - first command line argument.

Upvotes: 1

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