{"id":91,"date":"2020-02-18T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amsd.go.ro\/wordpress\/?p=91"},"modified":"2021-09-07T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:24:43","slug":"automatically-passed-parameters-into-a-windows-batch-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amsd.go.ro\/wordpress\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Automatically passed parameters into a Windows batch file"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following table outlines how you can modify the passed parameter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Parameter<\/strong><\/td>\nDescription<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%1<\/td>\nThe normal parameter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%~f1<\/td>\nExpands %1 to a fully qualified pathname. If you passed only a filename from the current directory, this parameter would also expand to the drive or directory.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%~d1<\/td>\nExtracts the drive letter from %1.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%~p1<\/td>\nExtracts the path from %1.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%~n1<\/td>\nExtracts the filename from %1, without the extension.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%~x1<\/td>\nExtracts the file extension from %1.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%~s1<\/td>\nChanges the n<\/em> and x<\/em> options’ meanings to reference the short name. You would therefore use %~sn1 for the short filename and %~sx1 for the short extension.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The following table shows how you can combine some of the parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Parameter<\/strong><\/td>\nDescription<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%~dp1<\/td>\nExpands %1 to a drive letter and path only.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%~sp1<\/td>\nFor short path.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
%~nx1<\/td>\nExpands %1 to a filename and extension only.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To see all the parameters in action, put them into the batch file testing.bat, as follows.<\/p>\n

@echo off
echo fully qualified name %~f1
echo drive %~d1
echo path %~p1
echo filename %~n1
echo file extension %~x1
echo short filename %~sn1
echo short file extension %~sx1
echo drive and directory %~dp1
echo filename and extension %~nx1<\/p>\n

Then, run the file with a long filename. For example, the batch file run on the file c:\\temp\\longfilename.long would produce the following output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following table outlines how you can modify the passed parameter.   Parameter Description %1 The normal parameter. %~f1 Expands %1 to a fully qualified pathname. If you passed only a filename from the current directory, this parameter would also […]<\/p>\n

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