BoardBabe Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 Someone posted how to find drive letter and path for a file with command using %~ variables like the one below. But I cannot seem to recall or search and find it again. Can someone post the list of available %~ variables for cmd?This shows full filepath%~f0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/batchcmds.htm%~I expands %I which removes 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 expands path to contain short names only%~aI expands %I to the file attributes of file%~tI expands %I to the date/time of file%~zI expands %I to the size of file%~$PATH:I searches the directories listed in the PATH environment variable and expands %I to the fully qualified name of the first one found. If the environment variable name is not defined or the file is not found by the search, then this modifier expands to the empty string.The modifiers can be combined to get compound results:Variable (with modifiers) Description%~dpI expands %I to a drive letter and path only%~nxI expands %I to a file name and extension only%~fsI expands %I to a full path name with short names only%~dp$PATH:I searches the directories listed in the PATH environment variable for %I and expands to the drive letter and path of the first one found%~ftzaI expands %I to a dir-like output line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durex Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 wow... now that will def come in handy. use batch all the time and no idea how these slipped through!thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vadikan Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 The whole thing is being discussed in this thread http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=49617 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepnmojo Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 for /? if you don't want to search the board everytime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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