%~ command variables.

[BoardBabe]

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

[dman]

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

[durex]

wow... now that will def come in handy. use batch all the time and no idea how these slipped through!

thanks!

[Vadikan]

The whole thing is being discussed in this thread http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=49617

[sleepnmojo]

for /?

if you don't want to search the board everytime