Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Another stupid batch trick part 2
A coworker astounded me today by showing me this lovely batch syntax:
set scriptname = %~n0
set scriptnamewithext = %~nx0
Damn it Microsoft, did it occur to anyone over there to document this? So frustrating. If it is documented, it's not in "help set" or the Windows XP help file. It's also nearly unsearchable due to being loaded with special characters. I did find plenty of usage of this technique on Google though so I'm probably the last one to know about it. The ones I found:
d-drive
p-path
s-short filename modifier
n-name
x-extension
set scriptname = %~n0
set scriptnamewithext = %~nx0
Damn it Microsoft, did it occur to anyone over there to document this? So frustrating. If it is documented, it's not in "help set" or the Windows XP help file. It's also nearly unsearchable due to being loaded with special characters. I did find plenty of usage of this technique on Google though so I'm probably the last one to know about it. The ones I found:
d-drive
p-path
s-short filename modifier
n-name
x-extension
# posted by James Tatum @ 3:32 PM 
