From: not@this.address.invalid   
      
   On 13/08/2013 10:56, gwhite@ti.com wrote:   
      
   > In a batch file, I want to assign a variable as a string with the current   
   directory stripped of the parent directories.   
   >   
   > Say I am "in" (batch file doesn't know where it is run from):   
   >   
   > C:\a\b\c\d   
   >   
   > I want to set a variable to d.   
   >   
   > If I do   
   >   
   > set x=%cd%   
   > echo %x%   
   >   
   > Then the command screen shows:   
   >   
   > C:\a\b\c\d   
      
   Try this:   
      
   @echo off   
   for /f "delims=" %%a in ("%cd%\.") do set "folder=%%~nxa"   
      
      
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