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Reputation: 1484

Get last foldername if folder has spaces with batch file

Using a batch file, I am trying to get the last foldername in a path.

The batch file gets the current working directory, goes up one level and uses that foldername. The problem is that if the foldername has spaces like "My Project", then the below code will return just "Project".

@echo off
cls

:: get pathnames
set ProjectRoot=%~dp0..\
set ProjectRootLast=%ProjectRoot:~0, -1%
for %%f in (%ProjectRootLast%) do (
    set ProjectName=%%~nxf
)

echo %ProjectRoot%
echo %ProjectName%
pause

Upvotes: 0

Views: 413

Answers (1)

Dennis van Gils
Dennis van Gils

Reputation: 3452

aschipfl is right, you should use:

@echo off
cls

:: get pathnames
set "ProjectRoot=%~dp0..\"
set "ProjectRootLast=%ProjectRoot:~0,-1%"
for %%f in ("%ProjectRootLast%") do (
    set "ProjectName=%%~nxf"
)

echo %ProjectRoot%
echo %ProjectName%
pause

But you could do this much more efficiently using

for %%* in (.) do echo %%~nx*

to get the name of the current directory and 

for %%* in (./..) do echo %%~nx*

To get the name of the directory above that

Upvotes: 1

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