Make a relative path in batch file

Question

I have a batch file that I wont know what drive letter it will be as I will be moving around alot.

For example: The adobe files reside in: J:\Files\New folder\USB\Adob

The batch file is executed from: J:\Files\New folder\USB\USBSTICK

So I tried the code:

xcopy /s /y "%~dp0\..\..\USB\Adob\*" "C:\Program Files\"

But it will not copy the files. How can I get it dynamic?

Answer 1

As the drive letter seems to be the relative part of your scenario. I believe this should work better for you, unless I have misunderstood you.

xcopy /s /y "%~d0\Files\New folder\USB\Adob\*" "C:\Program Files\"

For more variables that you can use follow these steps:
From CMD, type for /? and read at the bottom.

%~I         - expands %I removing any surrounding quotes (")
%~fI        - expands %I to a fully qualified path name
%~dI        - expands %I to a drive letter only
%~pI        - expands %I to a path only
%~nI        - expands %I to a file name only
%~xI        - expands %I to a file extension only
%~sI        - expanded path contains short names only
%~aI        - expands %I to file attributes of file
%~tI        - expands %I to date/time of file
%~zI        - expands %I to size of file
%~$PATH:I   - searches the directories listed in the PATH
               environment variable and expands %I to the
               fully qualified name of the first one found.
               If the environment variable name is not
               defined or the file is not found by the
               search, then this modifier expands to the
               empty string

The modifiers can be combined to get compound results:

%~dpI       - expands %I to a drive letter and path only
%~nxI       - expands %I to a file name and extension only
%~fsI       - expands %I to a full path name with short names only
%~dp$PATH:I - searches the directories listed in the PATH
               environment variable for %I and expands to the
               drive letter and path of the first one found.
%~ftzaI     - expands %I to a DIR like output line

In the above examples %I and PATH can be replaced by other valid
values.  The %~ syntax is terminated by a valid FOR variable name.
Picking upper case variable names like %I makes it more readable and
avoids confusion with the modifiers, which are not case sensitive.