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noah on 06/03/09


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Special variables in Windows Batch files

 / Published in: DOS Batch
 

URL: http://delicious.com/thefangmonster/bat

Below are the .bat file variables that come in handy most often for me.

This MS article has more information on batch files including a table of more special variables, including %~$PATH:1, which

"Searches the directories listed in the PATH environment variable and expands %1 to the fully qualified name of the first one found."

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  1. rem special variables for batch files
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  3. @echo off
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  6. echo fully qualified name of this batch file: 
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  8. echo %~fn0
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  11. echo path to here: 
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  13. echo %~dp0
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  16. echo arguments passed (if any):
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  18. echo %*

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