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Ondrej Sevecek
How to get this directory by some generic statement from .BAT file?
Ondra.
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Walter Schulz
How to get this directory by some generic statement from .BAT file?
I think you should rephrase your sentence
Or do you mean something like
dir "%allusersprofile%"\..
Ciao, Walter
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Jerold Schulman
set docset="%ALLUSERSPROFILE:\All Users=%"How to get this directory by some generic statement from .BAT file?
Ondra.
pushd %docset%
Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
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Torgeir Bakken (MVP)
Ondrej said:How to get this directory by some generic statement from .BAT file?
Hi
FOR /F "Tokens=1-2 delims=\" %%i in ("%ALLUSERSPROFILE%") DO SET var1=%%i\%%j
echo %var1%
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Ondrej Sevecek
Nice. Is there some documentation for this trick? Eg. from Microsoft, one
complex and exhaustive?
Ondra.
complex and exhaustive?
Ondra.
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Matthias Tacke
Best print out the releevant parts of help and/orNice. Is there some documentation for this trick? Eg. from Microsoft, one
complex and exhaustive?
for /?
set /?
and carefully read _every_ sentence. Jerold and some others do magic
with commands every one should know. If you study it, you will have
your heureka ;-)
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Jerold Schulman
Nice. Is there some documentation for this trick? Eg. from Microsoft, one
complex and exhaustive?
Ondra.
See tip 2815 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com for how to get
detail command help.
Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
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Tom Lavedas
This is well documented in the help for SET. All Mr.
Schulman did was recognize there was a subfolder under
the 'Documents and Settings' folder that was always named
the same, that is the 'All Users' folder, and then he
merely parsed that name off of the end of the
AllUsersProfile variable's contents. It's a neat trick,
but fully documented in the /? help text in the sense of
the primatives used.
One approach that is not as well documented might be the
use of the double dot to address the paret directory. I'm
sure it is documented, but I can't point to the exact
place.
This trick is useful for creating a pathspec that works
the same as the one Mr. Schulman's approach provides, but
that doesn't require any parsing. It also does not need
to know anything about the current content of the input
pathspec. So, you can get the pathspec for a file of any
arbitrary name by adding the '\..' string and find its
parent folder by adding a pair of shash double dots
(i.e. '\..\..')
For example, ...
pushd "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\.."
pushd "%USERSPROFILE%\.."
pushd "C:\Documents and Settings\someuser\My
Documents\somefile\..\..\.."
Watch the wordwrap on that last example.
These all takes you to the same location, but do not
require the environment variable. It's not as pretty, if
it's intended for display purposes. In such cases, use
the parsing technique.
Tom Lavedas
===========
Schulman did was recognize there was a subfolder under
the 'Documents and Settings' folder that was always named
the same, that is the 'All Users' folder, and then he
merely parsed that name off of the end of the
AllUsersProfile variable's contents. It's a neat trick,
but fully documented in the /? help text in the sense of
the primatives used.
One approach that is not as well documented might be the
use of the double dot to address the paret directory. I'm
sure it is documented, but I can't point to the exact
place.
This trick is useful for creating a pathspec that works
the same as the one Mr. Schulman's approach provides, but
that doesn't require any parsing. It also does not need
to know anything about the current content of the input
pathspec. So, you can get the pathspec for a file of any
arbitrary name by adding the '\..' string and find its
parent folder by adding a pair of shash double dots
(i.e. '\..\..')
For example, ...
pushd "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\.."
pushd "%USERSPROFILE%\.."
pushd "C:\Documents and Settings\someuser\My
Documents\somefile\..\..\.."
Watch the wordwrap on that last example.
These all takes you to the same location, but do not
require the environment variable. It's not as pretty, if
it's intended for display purposes. In such cases, use
the parsing technique.
Tom Lavedas
===========
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Matthias Tacke
:
But has the functionality this way:
@echo off
pushd %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\..
set docset=%cd%
popd
For example, ...
pushd "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\.."
pushd "%USERSPROFILE%\.."
These all takes you to the same location, but do not
require the environment variable. It's not as pretty, if
it's intended for display purposes. In such cases, use
the parsing technique.
But has the functionality this way:
@echo off
pushd %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\..
set docset=%cd%
popd
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