{"id":2560,"date":"2017-12-09T05:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T05:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2020-01-09T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T07:57:54","slug":"dp0-vs-%cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/dp0-vs-%cd\/","title":{"rendered":"%~dp0 VS %cd%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>rajeshkumar created the topic: %~dp0 VS %cd%<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use of %~dp0 and Use of %cd%<\/p>\n<p>They are not equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>%cd% is available either to a batch file or at the command prompt and expands to the drive letter and path of the current directory (which can change e.g. by using the CD command)<\/p>\n<p>%~dp0 is only available within a batch file and expands to the drive letter and path in which that batch file is located (which cannot change). It is obtained from %0 which is the batch file&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>An experiment like the following shows the difference<\/p>\n<p>Here is D:\\dirshow.bat:<\/p>\n<p><code>@echo off<br \/>\necho this is %%cd%%  %cd%<br \/>\necho this is %%~dp0 %~dp0<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Run it from C:\\ and this is what you see<\/p>\n<p><code>C:\\&gt;D:\\dirshow.bat<br \/>\nthis is %cd%  C:\\<br \/>\nthis is %~dp0 D:\\<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nRajesh Kumar<br \/>\nTwitt me @ <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RajeshKumarIn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">twitter.com\/RajeshKumarIn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rajeshkumar created the topic: %~dp0 VS %cd% Use of %~dp0 and Use of %cd% They are not equivalent. %cd% is available either to a batch file or at the command&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}