windows - Get current folder name by a DOS command?

Wednesday 1 August 2018

Is it possible to get the current folder name (not current directory path) by using a DOS command? If so, how?

The closest I got was this but it doesn't do it:

for /f "delims=\" %%a in ("%CD%") do set CURR=%%a
echo.DIR: %CURR%

note: the above attempt was me attempting to tokenize the string and get the last token set as the CURR variable.

Answer

Shortest way I have found:

for %I in (.) do echo %~nxI

or within a .bat script:

for %%I in (.) do echo %%~nxI

or in .bat with Get value in variable.

for %%I in (.) do set CurrDirName=%%~nxI
echo %CurrDirName%

nx means file name and extension only

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