[retrieve current directory name in batch]

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]

[retrieve current directory name in batch]

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...

[retrieve current directory name in batch]

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]