Question

I need to grab the folder name of a currently executing batch file. I have been trying to loop over the current directory using the following syntax (which is wrong at present):

set mydir = %~p0 for /F 'delims=\' %i IN (%mydir%) DO @echo %i 

Couple of issues in that I cannot seem to pass the ‘mydir’ variable value in as the search string. It only seems to work if I pass in commands; I have the syntax wrong and cannot work out why.

My thinking was to loop over the folder string with a ‘\’ delimiter but this is causing problems too. If I set a variable on each loop then the last value set will be the current folder name. For example, given the following path:

C:\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3\Archive.bat

I would expect to parse out the value ‘Folder3’.

I need to parse that value out as its name will be part of another folder I am going to create further down in the batch file.

Many thanks if anyone can help. I may be barking up the wrong tree completely so any other approaches would be greatly received also.

Answer 1

You were pretty close to it 🙂 This should work:

@echo OFF set mydir='%~p0' SET mydir=%mydir:\=;%  for /F 'tokens=* delims=;' %%i IN (%mydir%) DO call :LAST_FOLDER %%i goto :EOF  :LAST_FOLDER if '%1'=='' (     @echo %LAST%     goto :EOF )  set LAST=%1 SHIFT  goto :LAST_FOLDER 

For some reason the for command doesn’t like ‘\’ as a delimiter, so I converted all ‘\’ to ‘;’ first (SET mydir=%mydir:\=;%)