Question

This works when the file is called from the same directory where it it is placed:

    @ECHO OFF
    set _MyCurrentPath=%CD%
    pushd ..
    set _Level1UpDir=%CD%
    ECHO _Level1UpDir: %_Level1UpDir%
    pushd ..
    set _Level2UpDir=%CD%
    ECHO _Level2UpDir: %_Level2UpDir%
    pushd ..
    set _Level3UpDir=%CD%
    ECHO _Level3UpDir: %_Level3UpDir%
    PAUSE

Yet how-to get the n-th level up just from the %0 … it would requre some fancy call with for /f %%in

My strategy was to count the number of backslashes and the a second for loop as follows:
SET count=1
FOR /f “tokens=1-4 delims=.” %%G IN (‘echo %0’) DO (call :subroutine “%%G”)
GOTO :eof

:subroutine
echo %count%:%1
set /a count+=1
pause
GOTO :eof

Answer 1

What’s wrong with the path .\..\..\.. (repeat .. as much as you like, in a loop) ?

Here is batch code to repeat a string N times

If you need the fully expanded path, you could try tilde-expansion. Eg: %~dp0 will be %0 expanded to a full path.

I often put CD %~dp0 near the top of my batch files if they contain paths relative to the batch file itself.

Thus you could use %~dp0\..\..\.. to get the full path and then 3 up from there.