How to get parent path in .bat?

[Rico.JohnnY]

As we know %~dp0 is the location of current script,so how to get the parent path of current script?

For example:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\myfolder

is the current script dir,and i want to get the parent path(C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop), what's the syntax?

[xpmaniac4ever]

Rico.JohnnY ,

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\myfolder\..\

That`s the way I do it !

[Rico.JohnnY]

So what's the syntax while using %~dp0?

Set InstPath = %dp0

Set InstPath = "%InstPath%\..\"

Are these correct?

[xpmaniac4ever]

I guess so.

[Rico.JohnnY]

not working..any idea?

[xpmaniac4ever]

Try these:

Set InstPath = %dp0

Set InstPath2 = "%InstPath%\.."

..and tell me if this works

[Rico.JohnnY]

still not working

the script

Set InstPath = %~dp0

Set InstPath2 = "%InstPath%\.."

echo %InstPath2%

pause

and the output

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>Set InstPath = C:\Documents and

Settings\Administrator\Desktop\

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>Set InstPath2 = "\.."

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>echo

ECHO is on.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>pause

Press any key to continue . . .

[xpmaniac4ever]

I really don`t know why it doesn`t work for you..hm...try that..

without the quotes..

so..

Set InstPath = %~dp0

Set InstPath2 = %InstPath%\..

..and reply

Edited January 13, 2006 by xpmaniac4ever

[Rico.JohnnY]

still with no luck,what i get from InstPath is "\..", but i want the full path:wacko:

[jdoe]

As we know %~dp0 is the location of current script,so how to get the parent path of current script?

For example:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\myfolder

is the current script dir,and i want to get the parent path(C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop), what's the syntax?

You could do something like that...

SET CurrDir=%CD%
CD..
SET InstPath=%CD%
CD %CurrDir%

[Rico.JohnnY]

@jdoe

Many thanks..finally works. seems i made things complicated.

@xpmaniac4ever

Thanks all the same..

[Yzöwl]

or

pushd..
set parent=%cd%
popd

[jdoe]

or

pushd..
set parent=%cd%
popd

@Yzöwl

Thanks for this one. I've never thought PUSHD could be used with ending dots.

@Rico.JohnnY

If I were you I would use Yzöwl syntax. Much better

[MHz]

%cd% is a poor method to rely on for being the scripts directory as it is the current (working) directory. A batch file called from the registry, as RunOnceEx does, will return C:\ as the current directory.

The best solution was mentioned earlier but %~dp0 has a trailing backslash included, so adding another backslash made it fail. Add the below into a batch file and run it and you will show your solution.

@echo off
cd /d c:\
echo.
echo Current Working directory is  : "%cd%"
echo.
echo Script directory is		   : "%~dp0"
echo.
echo Parent of Script directory is : "%~dp0..\"
echo.
pause
REM ~ Open explorer in the script's parent directory.
explorer.exe "%~dp0..\"

Edited January 15, 2006 by MHz

[gunsmokingman]

Try this VBS script it start a cmd promt that passes the Current Directory to it.

Save As ComspecTest.VBS

Dim CD, Act : Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") : CD = Act.CurrentDirectory

Act.Run("%Comspec% /c Echo Off && CLS && Color 9e && mode 75,7 && Title Test CDset CD=%" &_

CD & "% && Echo %CD% && Echo %UserName% && set /p = It Worked, Press Any Key To Close")