Windows – How to get the name of a windows .bat script from within the script itself

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I have a .bat file. I want to programmatically get the name of the .bat file. How can I do this?

This is my end goal

"..\lib\nant\nant.exe" -buildfile:nant.build {{pass in name of this file here}}
pause

Best Answer

Try for /? on the command line. The help shows all kinds of useful filename substitutions, such as:

%~I         - expands %I removing any surrounding quotes (")
%~fI        - expands %I to a fully qualified path name
%~dI        - expands %I to a drive letter only
%~pI        - expands %I to a path only
%~nI        - expands %I to a file name only
%~xI        - expands %I to a file extension only

Replace I with 0 to get just the batch file name, and replace I with 1, 2, 3, etc. to get argument names.

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it is just %1 %2 ... %n for argument1, argument2, ..., argumentn

see this for example.

The for loop I did like this:

FOR %%a IN ("filename1" "filename2" "filename3") DO something %%a -clean Lib -log errors >> logfilename

Windows – For Loop counting from 1 to n in a windows bat script

You can do it similarly like this:

ECHO Start of Loop

FOR /L %i IN (1,1,5) DO (
  ECHO %i
)

The 1,1,5 is decoded as:

(start,step,end)

Also note, if you are embedding this in a batch file, you will need to use the double percent sign (%%) to prefix your variables, otherwise the command interpreter will try to evaluate the variable %i prior to running the loop.

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