Some gotchas to watch out for:
If you double-click the batch file %0
will be surrounded by quotes. For example, if you save this file as c:\test.bat
:
@echo %0
@pause
Double-clicking it will open a new command prompt with output:
"C:\test.bat"
But if you first open a command prompt and call it directly from that command prompt, %0
will refer to whatever you've typed. If you type test.bat
Enter, the output of %0
will have no quotes because you typed no quotes:
c:\>test.bat
test.bat
If you type test
Enter, the output of %0
will have no extension too, because you typed no extension:
c:\>test
test
Same for tEsT
Enter:
c:\>tEsT
tEsT
If you type "test"
Enter, the output of %0
will have quotes (since you typed them) but no extension:
c:\>"test"
"test"
Lastly, if you type "C:\test.bat"
, the output would be exactly as though you've double clicked it:
c:\>"C:\test.bat"
"C:\test.bat"
Note that these are not all the possible values %0
can be because you can call the script from other folders:
c:\some_folder>/../teST.bAt
/../teST.bAt
All the examples shown above will also affect %~0
, because the output of %~0
is simply the output of %0
minus quotes (if any).