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Capturing the current directory from a batch file

January 28, 2005 Jan 28, 2005 01/28/05

Raymond Chen

Sometimes people go to great lengths to get information which is available in a much simpler way. We saw it a few days ago when we found a 200+-line C# program that could be replaced with a 90-byte batch file. Here's another example of a rather roundabout way of capturing the current directory from a batch file. The easy way is to use the...