How do I get the last part of directory from a command line
Because of your Windows tag, I assume your cmd.exe
has extensions built-in. If that is the case, you can use two of FOR
's special substitution variable references:
Given a variable %A
, containing a path and file:
%~nA
will output the file name, %~xA
will output the file extension. The following example uses the pipe character |
as a delimiter. The pipe is an invalid character for files and paths and should not appear in a path. This will allow for spaces in paths and filenames. See FOR /?
for full details.
C:\> SET FSPATH=C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file.txt
C:\> echo %FSPATH%
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file.txt
C:\> FOR /F "delims=|" %A IN ("%FSPATH%") do echo %~nxA
file.txt
Alternatively, should you not have extensions in your cmd.exe
, you can use delims=\
, count the directory separators and split your path/file string based on that number.
Edit: Per your comment about the error. Above is an example on the command line. If you want to perform the same within a batch script, you need to double the %
on the the variables:
FOR /F "delims=|" %%A IN ("%FSPATH%") do echo %%~nxA
To use the value outside of the FOR
loop, you would need to assign the value to another variable. The variable %%A
is limited to the scope of FOR
.
:: example.bat
SET FSPATH=C:\Windows\bfsvc.exe
FOR /F "delims=|" %%A IN ("%FSPATH%") DO (
echo Inside loop %%~nxA
SET SOMEFILE=%%~nxA
)
ECHO Outside loop %SOMEFILE%
Give this a try:
for %f in (A\B\C\D) do set var=%~nxf