What is a windows bat analog of cd $(dirname $0)?

I've looking pretty long to get answer on this simple question and finally got it. Want to share with those who will port shell scripts to the bat analogs.

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3 Answers

Simple solution is:

cd /d "%~dp0"

%0 contains the full path of the running .bat or .cmd file.

The ~ expansions can be applied to all numbered arguments (%0…%9) and to the one-letter variables used by FOR (e.g. %%a). The most commonly used expansions are:

• ~d: drive letter (with colon)
• ~p: directory path (without drive letter)
• ~n: file name without extension
• ~x: file extension (with leading dot)

So combining them into %~dp0 will work like dirname, while %~nx0 will work like basename.

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The answer described by @Stand Alone is not completely reliable, because if the script in is another drive rather than current directory, It will not work. So some other solutions are:

Method 1

pushd "%~dp0"

Method 2

cd /d "%~dp0"

Note: To change directory to the last set directory, popd command can be used. This only works after changing the directory using #method 1.

cd /d "%0\.."

Every filename can be used as a dir path ))

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