Get Last Word of a cmd line

Lars Lindgren

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Feb 25, 2008, 1:27:10 PM2/25/08

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Hello everybody,

In a project with a batchfile I am trying to capture the last word of a
directory-line like this:

C:\school\source\linetest\LineTest\src\linetest
-----------

where I want to get the string "linetest" and assign it to a variable - How
can this be done using a batch file ?

Reason:
I need to execute a Lego Robot Java command : lejos.exe linetest.Main in the
directory \src but this is a minor part of the problem - isolating the last
word is the main trouble.

Thanks in advance,

Lars Lindgren

Luuk

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Feb 25, 2008, 1:49:24 PM2/25/08

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Lars Lindgren schreef:

save this batchfile, and name it CommandExtensions.bat
@echo off
echo %1: a %~a1
echo %1: d %~d1
echo %1: f %~f1
echo %1: n %~n1
echo %1: p %~p1
echo %1: s %~s1
echo %1: t %~t1
echo %1: x %~x1
echo %1: z %~z1

on my system its stored in D:\UTIL\CommandExtensions.bat

executing:
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat d:\util\CommandExtenstions.bat
gives:
D:\>d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat: a --a------
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat: d d:
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat: f d:\UTIL\CommandExtensions.bat
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat: n CommandExtensions
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat: p \UTIL\
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat: s d:\UTIL\COMMAN~1.BAT
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat: t 02-02-2008 13:15
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat: x .bat
d:\util\CommandExtensions.bat: z 164

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Luuk

foxidrive

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Feb 25, 2008, 1:53:17 PM2/25/08

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On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:27:10 +0100, "Lars Lindgren"
<larsli...@vip.cybercity.dk> wrote:

>In a project with a batchfile I am trying to capture the last word of a
>directory-line like this:
>
>C:\school\source\linetest\LineTest\src\linetest
> --------
>

>where I want to get the string "linetest" and assign it to a variable - How
>can this be done using a batch file ?
>
>Reason:
>I need to execute a Lego Robot Java command : lejos.exe linetest.Main in the
>directory \src but this is a minor part of the problem - isolating the last
>word is the main trouble.

For W2K/XP etc

@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%a in (

"C:\school\source\linetest\LineTest\src\linetest"

) do set var=%%~na
echo %var%
pause

Luuk

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Feb 25, 2008, 2:05:45 PM2/25/08

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Luuk schreef:

I forgot to mention that (most) of these options are mentioned in the
help-screen when typing:
FOR /?
(when someone needs this for reference)

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Luuk

Richard Bonner

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Feb 26, 2008, 10:04:00 AM2/26/08

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> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:27:10 +0100, "Lars Lindgren"
> <larsli...@vip.cybercity.dk> wrote:

> In a project with a batchfile I am trying to capture the last word of a
> directory-line like this:
>
> C:\school\source\linetest\LineTest\src\linetest
> --------
>
> where I want to get the string "linetest" and assign it to a variable - How
> can this be done using a batch file ?

*** DOS users may incorporate XSET for this. One would use "FDIR",
along with the "/WORD" and "/SEPARATOR" functions to get the directory and
then to select the last word by designating the `/' as the word separator.

Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/

Lars Lindgren

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Feb 26, 2008, 12:35:12 PM2/26/08

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"Lars Lindgren" <larsli...@vip.cybercity.dk> skrev i en meddelelse
news:47c3089d$0$89173$157c...@dreader1.cybercity.dk...

OK, thanks for all the good sugestions everybody - Got a solution working as
a result of your answers :-) .. Thanks.

Lars Lindgren

FileGod

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Mar 1, 2008, 7:16:58 PM3/1/08

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foxidrive <got...@woohoo.invalid> wrote:
>@echo off
>for /f "delims=" %%a in (
>"C:\school\source\linetest\LineTest\src\linetest"
>) do set var=%%~na
>echo %var%
>pause

The delims & the switch /f is are needed, this should even work in DOS I
guess...
@echo off
rem for /f "delims=" %%a in (
for %%a in (

"C:\school\source\linetest\LineTest\src\linetest"
) do set var=%%~na
echo %var%
pause

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foxidrive

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Mar 1, 2008, 10:29:13 PM3/1/08

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On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:16:58 GMT, 0@0.0 (FileGod) wrote:

>this should even work in DOS I guess...

Yes, it works fine. Won't work in DOS or Win9x/ME though.

>@echo off