The other day I had to write a script to change to a working directory and back to the original directory. The problem was they were on different drives on Windows. So I had to find a way to capture the drive letter
and switch back to that drive. When using the following command,
cd F:somedir
you are not moved to the “F:” drive without an explicit “F:” command.
The cd Command on windows will show the current directory location. Using some string manipulation on that and capturing it to a variable allows us to go back to that drive.
REM Capture the current drive letter set ORIGDRIVE=%cd:~0,2% F: REM some other scripting things here REM Return to the original drive letter ORIGDRIVE
The first line captures the current drive letter by specifying the first character with 0 and the ,2 states to pick up the next 2 characters which would hold the “C:” or whatever drive you started on.