Changing Directory in Windows Batch File
Just noticed a small thing yesterday.
set curr_dir=%cd% chdir /D J:\ REM...do your stuff... chdir /D %curr_dir%
notice two important things here:
- The script changes the current working directory to whatever it requires but then switches it back again so that if the user runs the script from a command window he is does not find himself in a strange directory after the script is finished
- There is a /D switch that needs to be added to chdir so that it changes the drive if required. Without this chdir won’t work ( it had me baffled for quite some time 🙂 )
Categories: Windows
batch file, cd, change directory, change drive, chdir, shell script, Windows
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found this off a google search. I have some batch files I inherited. Making the scripts more dynamic by using the subst command. So now the full path has a drive letter in it, whereas it used to just change to a sub directory. Probem is, it wasnt’ actually changing directories when I do an echo %cd% for the current directory.
Adding the /d to a cd (chdir) command did the trick!
Thank you so much this really helped me out!!
Thanks a ton, was making a batch file lanuncher but wasnt able to change drives, thanks.
Thank you for posting this steps. It solved my problem !!!
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On a Windows 2008 server the root directory is C:Users/username/desktop. I cannot get a batch file to change the directory to the data drive (e:) regardless if i use \D, CD.., Pushd, setlocal or any other command. File:
cmd
SETLOCAL
CD ..
CD /D “e:\Sync Tool\programfolder\programsubfolder
Is there somthing about the “Users” Folder in Windows that I don’t understand??
It is kind of reinventing the wheel 🙂 Check pushd/popd commands. They will do the trick without need of storing values in local vars
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