Windows batch script path

REM Delayed expansion lets us access the new value while inside the loop. REM Use the "name" substring to get the value we came for. Great write-up guys. I like simple though But your soultion only works for existing paths. If you have a path to be created later or only want to check, it fails — jeb. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Asked 10 years, 5 months ago. Active 11 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Flimzy Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Mat Mat k 39 39 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. If you add a setlocal to your batch file, the path is only visible in the file — jeb. Is that in place of "SET"?

Life saver. I needed to add an EV on a server that couldn't be restarted and this allows me to do what I need without having to schedule a restart! Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for pointing it out. Hayz Hayz 4 4 bronze badges. I can't see any more informations, than in the 9 years old answer — jeb. Extra information is "d means the drive only, …" etc. Thank you, Hayz. You can't remove the trailing backslash like that in a single line unless you use delayed expansion … — aschipfl.

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Ruel Ruel Although it's not a direct answer to OP's question, this flavour of the functionality is exactly what I was looking for when I found this question. None of the other solutions posted appear to work for me on Win7 32bit cmd.

Show 3 more comments. Improve this answer. Compo Compo There are not spaces in the path. In this answer a new cmd. Aacini : "There are not spaces in the path" Um - so what's that character between "Start" and "Menu" then? There is a space in the command to execute the name of the. Aacini: Point taken; "You probably don't need it" is unclear. It wasn't referring to the Start syntax, it was referring to my assumption that he wouldn't have any dependencies that are referenced with relative paths from the Startup folder.

I'll edit the answer. That won't work, due to the crazy syntax of the start command.