Question

I know that %0 contains the full path of the batch script, e.g. c:\path\to\my\file\abc.bat

I want path to be equal to c:\path\to\my\file.

How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

%~dp0 will be the directory. Here’s some documentation on all of the path modifiers. Fun stuff 🙂

To remove the final backslash, you can use the :n,m substring syntax, like so:

SET mypath=%~dp0
echo %mypath:~0,-1%

I don’t believe there’s a way to combine the %0 syntax with the :~n,m syntax, unfortunately.