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ahh, but 2 diff things, mine is relative to batch file, other is relative to workingdir... i use a pvr program that runs batches from a diff dir so makes all the diff to me..[always had to work around that]

oops, but this fixes that...i ran it in a long name dir, thought it had spaces... for %%A in ("%~dp0.") do echo %%~nA nobody's perfect...lol [it *was* 5am when i wrote it! ] was trying to re-encode my music to my phone in diff dirs and keep the artist\album\song.ext structure.. and just tried this, so if you want to go more than 2 dirs up, use for %%A in (".\..\..\..") do echo %%~nA goes up 4 dirs.. etc to go up as many as you want... or relative to batch file itself: for %%A in ("%~dp0.\..\..\..") do echo %%~nA it's: .=1 file's dir ..=2 parent dir [or.\..] .\..\..=3 up [the parent dirs parent dir] .\..\..\..=4 up etc etc.. that one surprised me even..nice n short too.. from cmdline try it out: for %a in (".\..\..") do echo %~na [since not starting with a file, no leading .] was there smart juice in my orange juice this morning or what? lol yesterday i wrote 24->12hr + am/pm conversion completely inside a sqlite query... and dude, i've learned so much over the years from you it's silly...thanx so much for sharing...

i can't believe i can add to the masters both... for batch file's current dir: for %%A in ("%~dp0.") do echo %%~nA i had been using a longer method so i'm killin myself for not seeing yours sooner.. also, for say any file, just add \. to it's path only [for %1 use %p1\.]and use it's name in for loop result..[%~n* ] so you could have it as a sub-routine and pass paths to it in your batch to get parent dir..[like say,dir of a bunch of mp3s artist dirs call :getparentdir "d:\path\sub\file.ext" goto :eof :getparentdir for %%A in ("%~dp1.") do echo %%~nA goto :eof and use .. ["%~dp0.."] to get dir 2dirs up... my first post.. Enjoy! [edited to add quotes]