Blog Archive for January 13, 2010

Current Directory in a .bat File on Windows

January 13, 2010

I've just noticed an interesting syntax in a batch file on windows.

Here's the contents of the batch file

"%~dp0runme.exe" param1 param2

If you run this, it will replace %~dp0 with the current directory path:

C:\tmp>test

C:\tmp>"C: …