Windows shell command to get the full path to the current directory?
Use cd
with no arguments if you're using the shell directly, or %cd%
if you want to use it in a batch file (it behaves like an environment variable).
You can set a batch/environment variable as follows:
SET var=%cd%
ECHO %var%
sample screenshot from a Windows 7 x64 cmd.exe.
Update: if you do a SET var = %cd%
instead of SET var=%cd%
, below is what happens. Thanks to jeb.
Capturing the current directory from a batch file
Quote the Windows help for the set
command (set /?
):
If Command Extensions are enabled, then there are several dynamic environment variables that can be expanded but which don't show up in the list of variables displayed by SET. These variable values are computed dynamically each time the value of the variable is expanded. If the user explicitly defines a variable with one of these names, then that definition will override the dynamic one described below: %CD% - expands to the current directory string. %DATE% - expands to current date using same format as DATE command. %TIME% - expands to current time using same format as TIME command. %RANDOM% - expands to a random decimal number between 0 and 32767. %ERRORLEVEL% - expands to the current ERRORLEVEL value %CMDEXTVERSION% - expands to the current Command Processor Extensions version number. %CMDCMDLINE% - expands to the original command line that invoked the Command Processor.
Note the %CD% - expands to the current directory string.
part.