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Asked: 2026-05-23T15:05:35+00:00

I am writing a batch file that does a number of operations in a

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I am writing a batch file that does a number of operations in a folder that is specified relative to the first argument passed in to the batch file. Within the batch file, I would like to echo to the user the the folder I am working in. However, every time I echo the path, it contains the ….\ that I used to determine where to place my folder. For example.

set TempDir=%1\..\Temp
echo %TempDir%

So, if I run my batch file with a parameter \FolderA, the output of the echo statement is FolderA\..\Temp instead of \Temp as I would expect.

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    SET "TempDir=%~1\..\Temp"
CALL :normalise "%TempDir%"
ECHO %TempDir%
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:normalise
SET "TempDir=%~f1"
GOTO :EOF

…

    The :normalise subroutine uses the %~f1 expression to transform the relative path into the complete one and store it back to TempDir.

    UPDATE

    Alternatively, you could use a FOR loop, like this:

    SET "TempDir=%~1\..\Temp"
FOR /F "delims=" %%F IN ("%TempDir%") DO SET "TempDir=%%~fF"
ECHO %TempDir%
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